Question about "Open with..."

Víctor Fernández vfrico at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 15:25:17 UTC 2013


Sorry for taking so much time to reply.

My app has a .desktop file, but, what do you mean about "install a desktop
file"? Is not enough to copy the file to /usr/share/applications?

I had already changed the mimetipes of my app and this doesn't works.

Thanks for your help!


2013/4/8 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>

> On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 18:00 +0200, Víctor Fernández wrote:
> > Hello. I'm developing an application for desktop which consist on
> > digital treatment of images. The idea is not to open the terminal to
> > launch the program, but there's a little problem: I don't know how
> > Nautilus know that .jpg (or .png) files can be opened with my program,
> > and what can I do to get this.
>
> Install a desktop file for your application, and add a MimeType= line to
> it, listing the mimetypes your application can handle.
>
> See
> /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop for inspiration
>
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