ROX Desktop - MIME types

XDGSupport

Dennis Tomas — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:33:00 +0000

Summary:

creates SendTo items for .desktop files

Current testing version:

0.1.2

Primary author(s):

Dennis Tomas

Zero Install URL (drag link to AddApp to install):

http://rox4debian.berlios.de/0install/XDGSupport.xml

Downloads:

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/rox4debian/apps

Summary:
creates SendTo items for .desktop files

Current testing version:
0.1.2

Primary author(s):
Dennis Tomas

XAttr

kerofin — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:47:21 +0000

Summary:

view or edit extended file attributes

Current stable version:

0.0.3

Home page:

http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/xattr.html

Primary author(s):

Stephen Watson

Zero Install URL (drag link to AddApp to install):

http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/2006/interfaces/XAttr

Summary:
view or edit extended file attributes

Current stable version:
0.0.3

Home page:
http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/rox/xattr.html

Primary author(s):
Stephen Watson

Can I get archives to unpack in the current directory instead of my home?

kerofin — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:02:55 +0000

If you bind archives to commands such as:

tar xzf "$@"

you will find that the files in the archive will be unpacked in your home directory. (Actually they get unpacked into ROX-Filer's current directory, which is normally $HOME).

To have the files unpack into the the same directory as the archive either:

Use a script like:
```
cd "`dirname $@`"
tar xzf "$@"
```
or
Use Archive to to unpack archives.

Using Archive is prefered because it is far more flexible.

Shared MIME run actions

Thomas Leonard — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:16:04 +0000

This is about offering the user a list of applications which can open a particular file. Ideally, applications should be able to add themselves to this list in a way that can be picked up by all desktops. Also, the user's preferred handler for opening a particular type should affect all applications.
See http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/mime-actions-spec.

File types and icons

Thomas Leonard — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:45:52 +0000

How does the filer decide what icon to show for a file, and which program to use to open it?

For each file, the filer starts by working out its MIME-Type, as follows:

If the file's user.mime_type extended attribute it set, then that is its MIME type.
If the file's name matches a pattern in one of the globs file (usually, /usr/share/mime/globs) then the line in that file gives the type.
If the contents of the file match a pattern in one of the magic files (usually, /usr/share/mime/magic) then that gives the type.

Can I use .mailcap for file associations?

Thomas Leonard — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:05:31 +0000

Not easily. But see:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=663546&group_id=7023&atid=357023