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MU · Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2008, 11:36 Post subject: MIME-Editor Alpha

The MIME-Editor will try to make Puppy compatible with all those external filemanagers, that support the freedesktop.org specifications.
For Rox-Filer, please create a new thread.
It works completely different.
This thread shall deal only deal with MIME-Types following the freedesktop.org specifications to avoid confusion.

The editor analyzes and modifies .desktop files in
/usr/share/applications
and
~/.local/share/applications

And in their subfolders.

The .desktop-files contain information, about what program shall be used to open a specific "MIME-Type".

Imagine like in Windows:
you click on "test.doc", and Word opens it.

But MIME-Types are more complex.
In Linux, a file is not recognized (directly) by the extension (.doc), but by a set of rules.
This allows to associate it with more than one program.

If you use the filemanager PCManFM, you can right-click a .doc, then it offers to open it with OpenOffice, Kword, Abiword or others.
You can get PCManFM here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25699

This flexibility makes it also difficult, to handle these associations.
My program tries to make it a bit easier by a grafical interface.

NOTE: this actually does NOT affect Rox-filer, Puppys default filemanager.
It has an own system to manage Mime-types.
I included a converter, that reads Puppys Rox-MIME-Types and converts them to the way of using Desktop-files.

So you can manage everything for programs that use this way of organizing file-assosiations.

NOTE2:
I'm no expert in this.
Maybe my program does things wrong, not following recommended specifications.
I will learn and try to enhance it in that direction, but for this release PLEASE BACKUP YOUR pup_save.2fs FIRST!

Download:
see attachment at bottom of this message.
Requires GtkBasic:
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Programming/GtkBasic003/Gtkbasic-003.pup
Mirror:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/puppy3/dotpups/Programming/GtkBasic003/Gtkbasic-003.pup

Screenshot:

Full size:
http://noforum.de/pics/MIME-Editor.jpg

Mark

MU · Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2008, 22:00 Post subject:

Made some speed-improvements and slightly re-arranged the layout.
You can install the new over the old dotpup.
Attached in first message.
Mark

Dingo · Posted: Sun 10 Feb 2008, 14:06 Post subject:

two newbie questions (excuse me)

fist= I need Pcmanfm or not to use this mime editor?
second= with this editor, assuming i want create a new extensions for files containing using how-to (i wolud create a .use extension), can I do this?)

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 10 Feb 2008, 14:31 Post subject:

Hey Mu

I figured why not give it a shot on puppy 2.17 since i'm running it live anyways, couldn't hurt. Smile

this is what i got
# MIME-Editor
/usr/local/MIME-Editor/MIME-Editor: line 15: export: `/tmp/en-MIME-Editor.mo': not a valid identifier
/usr/local/MIME-Editor/MIME-Editor: ./MIME-Editor.gtb: /usr/bin/gtkbasic003: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
so it didn't work,
well thanks anyways
ttuuxxx

MU · Posted: Mon 11 Feb 2008, 02:50 Post subject:

MU · Posted: Mon 11 Feb 2008, 03:04 Post subject:

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1448 Location: Australia

Hello MU,
Thank you for creating this Application. I look forward to experimenting with it. If it works as it appears in the screenshot, It will make life alot easier for the average User who's not into experimenting with their system files etc to get something to work.