[Fwd: Re: Mime-typ Scribus?]

[James Richard Tyrer]

Forwarded by request of Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste at kde.org>

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Subject: Re: Mime-typ Scribus?
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:49:55 -0400
From: Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste at kde.org>
Reply-To: KDE Usability Project <kde-usability at kde.org>
Organization: KDE Usability Project
To: KDE Usability Project <kde-usability at kde.org>
References: 
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<200606061051.16683.aseigo at kde.org> <4486F30B.1000105 at acm.org>

can we move this topic to kde-core-devel?  it is and implementation and
functionality issue and is off-topic for kde-usability

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:38, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 02:56, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >>> On Friday 02 June 2006 08:33, Thomas Zastrow wrote:
> >>>> KDE nows a lot of file-types, but Scribus isn't recognized by KDE by
> >>>> default. Wouldn't it possible to associate SLA-files in Konqueror with
> >>>> Scribus?
> >>>
> >>> scribus should ship a .desktop file that includes this association. if
> >>> they don't, that's a bug for scribus to fix.
> >>
> >> Scribus ships support for the XDG MIME information, but KDE doesn't
> >> support it yet.
> >
> > ah yes, real world useful versus theoretically useful. *applause* =/
> >
> > someone should thump the scribus team kindly on the noggin and suggest
> > that adding that one entry into their .desktop file would make scribus
> > more useful for the majority of open source desktop users, aka "kde
> > users".
> >
> >> This appears to be a general issue that needs to be addressed.
> >
> > kde4 supports (or at least will: dfaure is implementing it) the xdg mime
> > spec. before that point, scribus needs to fix their stuff.
>
> "This appears to be a general issue that needs to be addressed."
>
> This isn't just about Scribus.
>
> My point is that we should have the file: "scribus.xml":
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
>      <mime-type type="application/x-scribus">
>          <comment xml:lang="en">Scribus Document</comment>
>          <glob pattern="*.sla" />
>          <glob pattern="*.sla.gz" />
>          <glob pattern="*.scd" />
>          <glob pattern="*.scd.gz" />
>    </mime-type>
> </mime-info>
>
> Would it be possible to simply have a script that would generate the
> necessary file: "$KDEDIR/share/mimelnk/application/x-scribus":
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=MimeType
> MimeType=application/x-scribus
> Comment[en]=Scribus Document
> Patterns=.sla;*.sla.gz;*.scd;*.scd.gz;
> Icon=kde-mime-application-x-scribus
>
> from the XML file?
>
> The only issue to be addressed is the icon since the standard name does
> not work with KDE.

-- 
Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org

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