I'm trying to associate a custom application to a file type in GNOME 3 (FC15). In GNOME 2 one could go in the "Open with" pane of the file properties dialog and add a custom command there. The custom command edit box seems to have disappeared from the "Open with" pane in GNOME 3, so I was wondering if there is some workaround to manually assign the application.
In other words, from which file/directory does GNOME pull out that application list? How do I add a custom one?
I know this is late but...Fist, create a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ for example sublime.desktop would be something like ~/.local/share/applications/sublime.desktop with the following content:
[Desktop Entry]
Keywords=Plaintext;Write;Programming;Syntax;Ruby;HTML
Categories=;
Comment=sublime
Exec=sublime_text %U
Hidden=false
Icon=icon-name
Name=sublime
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Version=1.0
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;text/html;application/ruby;
Then... if you edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list you will see the content type text/html edit it like so:
[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop
text/html=sublime.desktop
application/x-extension-htm=sublime.desktop
application/x-extension-html=sublime.desktop
application/x-extension-shtml=firefox.desktop
application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-xhtml=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-xht=firefox.desktop
[Added Associations]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-htm=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-html=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-shtml=firefox.desktop;
application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xhtml=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xht=firefox.desktop;
application/x-yaml=sublime-1.desktop;
[Removed Associations]
text/html=firefox.desktop;gedit.desktop;
You can of-course change as many or as little as you want and you can also add as many or as little as you want to the desktop files MimeType for example application/python, application/x-ruby, text/ruby, text/x-python or dozens of other variants... though sticking to simple types should be alright for example application/python and application/ruby both work on my GNOME 3.2 install.
There is the answer: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263501
I have Gnome3 and there is "Open with" pane :) You also go to proporties and there is "Open with" tab.
Edit: You should look on https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118966. Your applications should show on list, if you add a *.desktop file associated with your application to /usr/share/applications or ~.local/share/applications/ directory. Exec should like this: Exec=yourprogram %U
In newer versions of Gnome, you don't need to manually edit anything now. Right-click on the file you want to open, select Properties, go to the Open With tab, and select the default application you want to use...then click "Set as default".
gnome-panel still has the old gnome2 command to do this.
Enter:
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/.local/share/applications/ --create-new
Then use your-command %U as the command.
alacarte
In Gnome 3.4.2 there is another way to change defaults for web, mail, calendar, music, video and photos. You have to use the gnome-control-center (or Details in Activities menu). Then go to --> Default Applications
I believe you can modify the entries in this file: /usr/share/gnome/applications/defaults.list.
