- From: Andrea Gamba <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Cc: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <address@hidden>, address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] How to install Texmacs 1.0.7 on Ubuntu
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:33:50 +0100
Thank you Paul, I could finally install 1.0.7 on Ubuntu 8.10 using your
script.
As I suspected, mime type recognition is broken. When you create a
texmacs document it is shown as a text document, and when you click on
the icon it is opened with gedit.
However, I have now checked which steps should be taken to fix the
problem (please see
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mimetypes-database.html.en
as a reference):
1) a file
/usr/share/mime/packages/texmacs.xml
should be added to the package, containing the following lines:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
<mime-type type="text/texmacs">
<comment>TeXmacs Document</comment>
<glob pattern="*.tm"/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>
(the corresponding openoffice.org-common.xml file may serve as a model).
2) an icon named 'text-texmacs.svg' (if you like scalable icons) should
be copied in
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/
to be used for TeXmacs documents.
3) The commands
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
update-desktop-database
cd /usr/share/icons
gtk-update-icon-cache --force gnome
should be issued, to refresh the mimetype and icon cache.
I hope that the corresponding changes may be easily performed on the
TeXmacs package, so that the program may integrate properly with
Gnome/Ubuntu desktops.
I attach here two scalable icons that can be used as 'TeXmacs.svg' and
'text-texmacs.svg' (for the application and the documents).
Andrea
- Re: [TeXmacs] How to install Texmacs 1.0.7 on Ubuntu, (continued)
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