mimeman: a mimetype to application file association manager

Xyne · 2009-08-12 19:28:04

info page: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/mimeman

I got the idea for this when dealing with mimetypes for ObFilebrowser. Pcmanfm kept creating redundant desktop files so I wanted something to purge them and it just went from there. I think it's pretty robust for doing mass associations due to the ability to use perl regexes.

The man page on the info page should explain it. If you want to see the actual changes that it makes, open up ~/.local/share/applications and take a look at the files after each operation. If anything's unclear, let me know. I'll probably add this as an optdepend to ObFilebrowser and throw in a menu to do in-menu associations along with some other stuff. *edit* Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm looking at different ways of doing that and they all feel a bit inelegant... might just stick to the command line... it's easy enough to do with the "copy mimetype" menu anyway. Meh.

Btw, I seriously considered naming this "assman" or "assmime". It might not take too much convincing to get me to change the name.

Last edited by Xyne (2009-08-12 20:19:58)

firecat53 · 2009-08-12 19:37:37

This looks like a great candidate for integrating in with dmenfm ....

Nice work!

Scott

Barrucadu · 2009-08-12 19:38:51

Have you ever created something not useful?

Xyne · 2011-02-22 08:53:07

Mimeman is dead. Long live Mimeo!

SanskritFritz · 2011-02-22 08:56:15

Thank you Xyne for all your oh-so-useful apps!

litemotiv · 2011-02-22 09:01:53

Please continue in the Mimeo thread linked to above.

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#1 2009-08-12 19:28:04

mimeman: a mimetype to application file association manager

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Re: mimeman: a mimetype to application file association manager

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Re: mimeman: a mimetype to application file association manager

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