[Audacity-devel] shared-mime-info/desktop-entry-spec integration

[Christian N. <ch...@gn...>]

I'm very sorry that I didn't use bugzilla to report this issue, but it
wasn't willing to send me a password, so I'm (ab)using this developer
mailing list.

Currently, audacity files are recognized as being simple XML files in
GNOME [1]. This is due to the fact that Audacity neither places
a .desktop file in the applications directory, nor does it register a
MIME type for ".aup" files.
I'm attaching two files:
A proposed .desktop file for audacity based on the Debian .desktop file
but with "application/x-audacity-project" added to "MimeType". It is
compliant to the desktop-entry-spec [2]. It should be installed to
$PREFIX/share/applications and the Icon key should be changed to
"audacity.xpm". Addionally, "audacity.xpm" should be installed to
$PREFIX/share/pixmaps.
The other one is an XML file compliant to the shared-mime-info spec [3]
which registers the MIME type "application/x-audacity-project" so that
modern desktop environments can detect .aup and correctly open files
with audacity. It is meant to be installed to
$PREFIX/share/mime/packages.
If you need any help with integrating this, I can help you of course. We
should just make the power of audacity available to those who don't know
that it can be launched by entering "audacity" in a shell.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310070
[2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
[3] http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/

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Christian Neumair <ch...@gn...>