Re: [Gramps-users] opening new database

[Adam S. <ad...@sc...>]

Thanks for the info.  On my next install of Gramps, I'll have to look at
this in more detail.

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:00 -0700, Alex Roitman wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:44 -0400, Adam Stein wrote:
> > As for the MIME errors (those with the Unknown file type:
> > application/x-extension-grdb message), I'm guessing you didn't install
> > gramps in /usr.  I install gramps in a non-standard place so that the
> > MIME files gramps comes with aren't integrated with the rest of the
> > normal GNOME MIME files.  I don't know if you can tell GNOME multiple
> > places to look for MIME files (maybe a GNOME expert can comment on
> > this).
> 
> Not a GNOME expert, but here's a few things on mime types.
> The shared mime type system is not a gnome thing.
> It's developed on freedesktop.org, so both GNOME and KDE,
> as well as any other party interested in a sane and documented
> way to maintain a shared mime type system, can use it:
>    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec
> 
> Now, the INSTALL file in gramps source tree has an informative
> section on how to install in non-default places and still have
> working mime types (and hence working gramps). In short, in
> the non-default install you need to use a per-user store
> for mime types. Typically it is in ~/.local/share/mime
> instead of /usr/share/mime dir. This allows installing without
> the root privileges, under other dirs, etc.
> 
> >   What I did to integrate the Gramps MIME types is the following:
> > 
> >   cp $TOPDIR/share/mime-info/gramps.keys /usr/share/mime-info
> >   cp $TOPDIR/share/mime-info/gramps.mime /usr/share/mime-info
> >   cp $TOPDIR/share/mime/packages/gramps.xml /usr/share/mime/packages
> >   cp $TOPDIR/share/mime/application/x-gramps-package.xml \
> >      /usr/share/mime/application
> >   cp $TOPDIR/share/mime/application/x-gramps.xml \
> >      /usr/share/mime/application
> >   cp $TOPDIR/share/mime/application/x-gramps-xml.xml \
> >      /usr/share/mime/application
> >   update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
> 
> That will work too. Of course, uninstalling your TOPDIR gramps
> will not automatically uninstall the mime types in such setup,
> so you'd have to uninstall them by hand when you decide so.
> 
> Alex
> 
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