Re: How to add Iceweasel file associations ?
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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 22:47 +0100, Tim Day wrote:
>> If I
>> Edit->Preferences->Content->FileTypes-Manage
>> I see a list of extensions for various things (SWF, PDF, RA etc)
>> but how do I add new ones ? There's buttons to change existing actions
>> or remove them, but none to add new ones. What's the trick ? Something
>> involving /etc/mime.types and /etc/mailcap instead ?
>>
>> (Specifically, I want to get the .ram files linked from the BBC player's
>> "Launch in stand alone player" to actually launch realplayer rather than
>> just complaining there's no associated helper function for the filetype;
>> they work just fine if I download them and provide them to realplayer on
>> the command line, but it's a bit roundabout).
>
> I'm pretty sure Iceweasel uses the shared MIME spec from freedesktop.org
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo_2dspec
>
> If you are using a desktop environment, it should already use this, so
> setting realplayer as the app for .ram files should be done through
> whatever tool you usually use. If you're not in a DE, I think you can
> use xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package.
>
> Oh, and you should definitely file a bug about this, the realplayer
> package should provide a .desktop file with mimetype specifications.
>
I don't think this is the case. AFAIK, there is no way to do it, and
this a feature that is missing in IceWeasel/Firefox. I think it might
have something to do with not using Gnome, but I have not found any way
to tell my Iceweasel to associate with files that it knows nothing
about. That's another reason for me to use Konqueror.
Joe
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