MIME type handling in firefox/thunderbird

[Net Llama!]

On 08/09/2005 06:01 AM, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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>

FWIW, i have this problem in firefox too.  I tried adding something 
similar to the above to the mimeTypes.rdf for my firefox profile but it 
didn't do anything.

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