Hi, ext maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org wrote: >> The Desktop Entry Specification[4] says: >> %f A single file name, even if multiple files are selected. The system >> reading the desktop entry should recognize that the program in question cannot >> handle multiple file arguments, and it should should probably spawn and >> execute multiple copies of a program for each selected file [...] > > I share your frustration. I spent a long time trying to figure out how > to get this to work and eventually gave up and wrote a wrapper. > It takes a bit of configuration but I now have a "mimewrap" application > that does the osso_mime_set_cb thing and passes the arguments to a > specified application based on the file extension. Seems to work fine > for feeding spreadsheets to gnumeric from the file manager. I'd think > it should work for unzip as well although I'm not sure how you'd want > to specify where the unzipped contents should go. > > And it's only 188 lines of C :-) IMHO best option would be to port some Gnome/Gtk archive manager that supports zip/tar/gzip/lha/zoo/rar/you_name_it to Maemo and make it to accept the files through D-BUS. I think users would appreciate a GUI bit more that files automagically getting uncompressed (where they don't want them :-)). - Eero
