[rox-devel] MIME type configuration

[Simon B. <sim...@pe...>]

I recently downloaded ROX-Filer and I'm so impressed I'm thinking of 
building a mini-distro around it :)

The only thing I dislike about it so far is the complexity (relative to 
doing everything else in ROX-Filer) of associating files with apps.  As 
far as I can see, it requires editing a text file to add a line with the 
mime-type and the file patterns/extensions of the files that use that 
mime type to mime info and then (easily) setting up the association 
through ROX-Filer.  I noticed this particularly when I set up LyX.  I 
propose to modify the association setup so that if a file is being 
associated which doesn't match any mime type patterns, it gives it a 
mime type automatically rather than trying to set the association for 
text mime type.

Naturally, I don't want to do this if (for some reason I haven't seen) 
it's a bad thing(tm).  Please let me know what you think before I grab 
the CVS version and look at it on the weekend.

Thanks for your time and attention.