mime-types in gnome (Blender package)

[Michel Salim]

That should work until GNOME 2.8 is out, at least :)

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:39:06 -0700 (PDT), Denis Leroy
<denisleroy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I ran into the same problem recently (see post of mine on this list
> last week). It turns out you may want to provide :
> 
>   /usr/share/mime/packages/blender.xml
> and
>   /usr/share/application-registry/blender.applications
> 
> That's apparently what Nautilus looks at, at least when it's in a good
> mood.
> 
> You'll also need to call 'update-mime-database /usr/share/mime'.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Phillip Compton <pcompton at proteinmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am currently updating the blender package for fedora.us, but it has
> > been requested that I make the package associate .blend files with
> > blender. Seems like a reasonable thing to do, but so far, I'm having
> > little success with getting it to work in gnome (working fine in
> > kde).
> >
> > I have created blender.mime and blender.keys files.
> >
> > I've added a x-blender.desktop file under mimelnk/applications
> >
> > .blend files now have a lovely icon, but no luck in getting blender
> > to
> > start when double-clicking on them.
> >
> > here's the current srpm:
> > http://phillip.compton.name/SRPMS/blender-2.34-0.fdr.1.src.rpm
> >
> 
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