<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/4 Jonathan Ryshpan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonrysh@pacbell.net">jonrysh@pacbell.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
How does Gnome determine the "type" of a file. The type can be<br>
discovered by right clicking on the file icon in Nautilus, and then<br>
selecting the tab "Open With". I suspect that the type is determined by<br>
the type as reported by the file command, by the file's extension, and<br>
by tables of mime types in the system. Is this correct? The rules<br>
don't seem to be documented anywhere, nor is there any advice on how to<br>
set up the tables.<br>
<br>
Why am I interested?<br>
<br>
I'm trying to set up nautilus so that clicking on a XML file with<br>
extension ".aup" will start Audacity. (".aup" is the extension used by<br>
the Audacity audio editor for the files it uses.) On my system, the<br>
type of such an .aup file is "XML document", which is associated (quite<br>
reasonably) with Firefox and a number of editors. I'd like to set<br>
things up so that files with extension .aup will have their own type,<br>
which could be associated with Audacity. How can such a type be<br>
created, etc.?<br>
<br>
Thanks - jon<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>if I remember well, Nautilus relies on the MIME type of the file (as given for exemple by the « file » command, which uses libmagic as Nautilus). If Nautilus fails to detect it, then it relies on the extension file, like Windows.</div>
<div>About your problem, maybe this could help you:</div><div> <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html</a></div>
<div>But you'd better interact with upstream to define a new MIME type.</div>