Missing Hardwae option

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 30 15:08:12 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 13:32 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:14 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I would guess you were correct but you are not. I used the file:
> > 
> >  ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
> > containing:
> > 
> > [Added Associations]
> > x-content/audio-cdda=totem.desktop;
> > x-content/video-dvd=livna-vlc.desktop;
> > 
> > I logged out and logged in. But rhythembox appeared and not totem as
> > one of the options. Try it and see if you can make what you describe
> > to work. Its frustrating.
> 
> Looking at the totem.desktop file, I don't find it listing cdda in the
> MIME types that it supports, so it shouldn't get offered as a player for
> them, though it (movie player) is on the right-click list when I browse
> through the psuedo-tracks in Nautilus.  I didn't have an audio disc
> handy when I responded, last night.
> 
> Can you get totem to play audio discs, manually?  I can't through the
> play disc menu entry in the program, but can through the + button to
> browse for a file, and I can externally.  
> 
> If you can, it would seem that you've added a plug-in for it, and that
> should add to the list of MIME types it can accept.
> 
> Totem would seem a terribly bloated application for playing an audio CD.
Tim, you miss the point. The file you pointed to does not seem to
control the association of applications to media. There is no reference
to rythembox in the file, yet rhythembox offered to the user as an
application for playing CDs. That is being controlled somewhere else.
But where?
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