[gcmd-dev] Re: python: mimetype plugin

[J2F]

Apologies for not replying sooner... I was out for the weekend. Thanks
for the replies. Thanks as well to Piotr for pointing out the
documentation and the suggestion to try out the 1.2.4 branch.

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:54 +0100, Micha wrote:
> 
> > I'm quite familiar with python. 
> 
> Great !
> 
> > Any suggestions where I can start? 
> 
> Some month ago, Magnus posted a shellscript 
> providing a very rudimentary mimetype editing interface.
> It just manipulates the content of the users ~/.local
> folder. This is the freedesktop thing, Magnus wrote some
> lines about that on the gcmd homepage, in doc section,
> and we had several discussions about mimetypes 
> onlist, you can search the archives, but this is not
> required since freedsktop is really simple to grok.
> 
> @ Magnus, would you re-post the latest version of your script ?
> 
> I think this is a most urgently needed feature, and 
> shouldn't be difficult to realise. If you're unfamiliar with
> py-gtk then you could of course use any graphical interface, 
> like FLTK, zenity, ncurses/dialog or whatever. I think, once 
> the logic is working, migrating the thingy to gtk2 later shouldn't 
> be difficult.
> 
> @ Piotr, IIRR there was a link to py-gtk docu ?
> 
> I'm not in Python but i will try to grok it ASAP and i think you
> can get help from this list anyway, for any questions.
> 
> 
> 
> Greets, Micha
> 
> ps. 
> J2, i think i don't need to CC you personally anymore, then ?
> And would you please be so kind to tell some real name, or at least
> a nickname...i can't feel comfortable with a char and a number, hope
> you can accept that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Jojo