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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    call for Applications for Nautilus (short notice)
From:       Seth Nickell <snickell () stanford ! edu>
Date:       2001-02-25 22:04:27
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fellow hackers,

<inspiring speech>
The following is my small part in trying to shore up the silly rifts
that have developed between our communities. We (meaning KDE & GNOME &
all free software) have the "higher moral ground" here (free software),
so lets be a model to proprietary software developers, and show them
that if nothing else free software allows us to work together more
cooperatively and effectively. :-) Goodwill towards all hackers, gnome
and kde alike, says I.
</barfy speech>

The short story: Nautilus 1.0 (the GNOME 1.4+ filemanager) will be
frozen imminently (like early within this upcoming week), and released
fairly soon thereafter. Our application database doesn't have many KDE
applications right now, but we want to support all cool free software.
Therefore, I want to know what should be added to the application list
from the KDE project.

I know this is short notice, but only recently did I notice the
deficiencies in the Application/MIME database. I realize KDE doesn't use
a centralized Application database, a decision I actually agree with,
but at this stage in a release we must run with what is well tested and
proven over a year of abuse (uh, I mean testing). I have already added
appropriate entries for KWord, KSpread, KIllustrator, and KPresenter
(though can somebody send me a list of the appropriate mime types for
these? currently I'm just using application/x-kappname). 

Of course, users can customize their file associations and mime
types...but if you want your application (or any application near and
dear to your heart) to be executable "out of the box" with Nautilus
please send me the following by e-mail (seth@eazel.com):

Application command:    (e.g. 'kword')
Application name:       (e.g. 'KWord')
Supported mime types:   (e.g. 'application/x-kword', 'text/x-abiword',
'application/msword' etc)

AND, for *each* MIME type (unless it is fairly common such as PNG, BMP,
DOC, XLS, WAV, MPEG, basically anything in /etc/magic) it would be
useful to have as much of the following info as you know/can find
(particularly necessary if this is the application's native format)

MIME type:              (e.g. 'video/mpeg')
Description of format:  (e.g. 'Microsoft Video')
suffix/extensions:      (e.g. '.mpeg', '.mp2', '.vob', etc)
Magic MIME number (way to detect it):    (e.g. initial byte offset: 0  
character string: 0x000 0x000 0x001 0x272   (or could be '%PDF' as
another example that doesn't use character codes))
You may also attach an icon for the mime type if you wish, though I may
not use all icons.

cheers!

-Seth (Nautilus/gnome-vfs/tadpole hacker) 

<snickell@stanford.edu>
 
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