Hi, On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:55:26 -0800, maemo 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 see :) Well, nice as a workaround... >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. To where the zip file was... > And it's only 188 lines of C :-) Hehe :-) > I've yet to contribute anything to the maemo world. Where should > something like this go? garage.maemo.org? Yes, sounds good (for a short term solution)[1], start a garage project. cheers, Danny [1] Long term, the platform could just support launching scripts with a useful main argv _as well_ (in addition to the maemo dbus optimize stuff) - if it doesn't already - I don't know...
