Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] File type associations

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Neil Howe wrote:
> The latest autopackage on the web site is setup to install MIME types 
> and file associations for .xar and .web, using the facilities provided 
> by autopackage for this. Please can people try it and email the list 
> to let us know if it works or not and on which distributions. Please 
> include version of distribution and desktop used.
>
> I’ve tried it without success on my FC4 and Ubuntu systems but some 
> other people have reported that it works. I’m assuming I should be 
> able to double-click on a XAR file on the desktop or in the file 
> browser and Xara LX should open the file. One of the guys at 
> autopackage has checked what we’re doing – he says it’s fine and that 
> our package works for him.
>
> Ideally we should also be showing the LX icon for these files, but I 
> believe the current release version of autopackage doesn’t support 
> that yet.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
Bad news, I tried the latest installer on Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE 
desktop environment) and it didn't work. Double-clicking on the XAR file 
in Thunar (file manager) produces a dialog asking me which application 
to use to open the file.

Luke