On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Justin Glenn Smith wrote:
I would have sent this to the debian PD maintainer, but it appears the package is orphaned right now.
If you the attached puredata.xml file into /usr/share/mime/packages/ and then run 'sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/packages' programs like rox-filer and nautilus will recognize the application/x-puredata mimetype, allowing the association of the files for point and click opening.
That would be a great thing to include. There is a lot of that kind of stuff included in the Pd-extended package that is distributed outside of Debian/Ubuntu. Please take a look at them and see if you can see anything to improve. You can see those files here:
http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/packages/linux_m...
I joined the list in order to forward this info, so please pardon me if this has already come up before. Is this something that would be good to include as an optional installable part of pd for those who use this mime update method?
Yeah, we need to iron out a grand plan before taking on the 'puredata' package again. There has been discussion, next we need motion. :)
Also, I have embedded the expat xml parsing library into a pd external in order to import objects from svg documents edited in inkscape into pd structs, what would be the best way to share this with others once I get my code cleaned up enough for distribution? (
This sounds super useful if it will do general XML parsing. Your idea sounds quite cool too. To start with, I think you should package it as a libdir library and distribute it on puredata.info or wherever you want.
http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Libdir
.hc
so far, between the external and a pd patch I can import three sided shapes accurately, accounting for scale / translate / shear / rotation data).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info ">
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