[PD] file association on gnome

[cyrille henry]

oups, sorry.
here it is.

cyrille


patco a écrit :
>  hi,
>  thank you for those informations,
>  I had to build manually pd-extended.xml by analysing the other xml
> files, here is the result:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <mime-info
> xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'>
> 	<mime-type type="application/pd-extended">
> 		<sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
> 		<comment>PureData patch file</comment>
> 		<glob pattern="*.pd"/>
>                 <magic priority="99">
>                   <match value="#N canvas " type="string" offset="0"/>
>                 </magic>
> 	</mime-type>
> </mime-info>
> 
> after updating mime, gnome don't reconize any application to open .pd
> files with anymore, I guess I've donne something wrong, but it's not
> easy to figure this out,
> 
> please could you provide or tell where it's possible to find
> mime_pd-extended.xml file?
> 
> 
> 
> Le mardi 23 septembre 2008 à 13:05 +0200, cyrille henry a écrit :
>> yes, this is normal, since .pd file does not have a mime time, so gnome see it as a text file.
>> here is what need to be done in order to make it work as expected (on ubuntu): 
>>
>> # add mime type to .pd files
>>     cp mime_pd-extended.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/pd-extended.xml
>>     update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
>> # add icon to this mime type
>> # works curently only on gnome, is it possible to find a better way to do this?
>>     cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/pd.png /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-pd-extended.png
>>     chmod 644 /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-pd-extended.png
>>     gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/gnome/
>> # adding pd by default on clicking on this files
>>     echo "application/pd-extended=pd-extended.desktop" >> /usr/share/applications/defaults.list 
>>
>> cyrille
>>
>> patco a écrit :
>>> Hi, something weird is happening if I want to open pd patches with
>>> double clic, it opens the patch with gedit
>>>
>>> any good gnome user would tell me to right clic on the patch icon and
>>> select open with pd
>>>
>>> and it works
>>>
>>> but after I do this setting, .txt files are opened with pd!??
>>>
>>> so I do right clic on txt file, open with gedit
>>>
>>> and it works
>>>
>>> but after I do this setting, .pd files are opened with gedit
>>>
>>>
>>> and so on
>>>
>>> do someone has the same behavior?
>>>
>>> This is happening on ubuntu hardy i386 and pd-extended
>>>
>>>
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> 
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