MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 2:03 am, someone claiming to be Jesus Antonio Santos 
Giraldo wrote:
> Interesting...
>
> I usually save the file (always download to desktop), and edited as
> needed bit it would be great if a given application could be used.
>
> I read mimeTypes.rdf but is does not explicitly says what application to
> use for a given mimetype, for example an "application/zip" is related to
> <NC:externalApplication
> RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/zip"/>
> But I cant see this related to an application for example ark.
>
>
> So where do I say that the application I want to handle a zip file is
> ark for example?
>

Well... under Windows, my t-bird's mimeTypes.rdf file has this for PowerPoint 
files:
<RDF:Description 
RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"
                   NC:path="C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 
1.9.65\program\soffice.exe"
                   NC:prettyName="soffice.exe" />

My guess is that you can add 'NC:path="<path to ark>"' to specify that zip 
files get opened with ark.

As I said previously, I have no way to test this under linux since I currently 
do not have t-bird installed (FWIW, I prefer kmail for e-mail).

<snip>

Tim
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