Dear developpers, I am packaging specialised programs, such as perlprimer and treeviewx, and I would like that when users double-click on a file they saved, the file is opened with the relevant program. Apparently, the FreeDesktop consortium operates this function through the internet content types (MIME).
I have worked out the association between programs and suffixes: for perlprimer for instance I declare the files suffixed by .ppr to be text/x-perlprimer, and I declare that perlprimer can open files of this type. I wrote a bried summary on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport (thanks Franklin for the formatting). For the association between an icon and a file type, I did not manage. I found a document that tells how to give a name to the icons, and one that tells where third party applications should store them: http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html I found the program dh_icons that appeared in the debhelper suite at version 5.0.51. However, it seems quite GNOME-specific as it is not fully compliant with the FreeDesktop standard. http://bugs.debian.org/448094 Is there a "Debian way" to associate icons, file types and suffixes in FreeDesktop-compliant environments ? For instance, the /usr/share/icons/hicolor directory (the default one) supports many different resolutions. Should a package support all of them ? Should .icon files be written for all icons ? If they are identical, is it better to use symlinks ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org WakÅ, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
