Re: [Denemo-devel] .denemo file type

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:56 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:38 -0400, Yves de Champlain wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > this is just a glitch, but .denemo files are classified as gzip  
> > archives by gnome, regarding which application should be used to open  
> > a .denemo file.
> > 
> > If I try to change this behavior, it seems I would need to define  
> > denemo as my default gzip application.
> > 
> > Is there anything that can be done about this ?
> 
> I noticed this also. I did some google searching but found nothing. All
> a denemo file is is a gzipped xml file. If you can do the research on
> this and send us a few links on tutorials on how we can create a file
> format that is registered by gnome a file that is different than a gzip
I've done a little experimentation & it appears that gnome is reading
the first few bytes of a file and determining its type from that. I've
created an arbitrary binary file and declared it to belong to emacs, and
as long as I keep the first few bytes the same gnome continues to open
such files with emacs. The implication is that we could add a few bytes
at the start of the .denemo files to personalize them. It would be a
pain, of course.
Richard


> archive we would much appreciate it. 
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> Jeremiah
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> > yves
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