Re: .app intergration in GWorkspace

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-10-22 06:12:14 +0100 Mathew McBride 
<gmane.20.mcbridematt@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> Apps themselves are working fine (openapp or not) but GWorkspace didn't 
> recognize file types at all.
>
> Surely even if the application the wrapper is launching is dud, GWorkspace 
> would still register the filetype?

Yes ... if the applications are stored in one of the standard directories, 
and 'make_services' has been run.

The way it works is this ... the make_services tool looks through all the 
standard directories for any application wrappers, and parses their 
Info_gnustep.plist file to determine file extensions that the app uses.  It 
builds up a map of all extensions and the apps that handle them.  It writes 
that mapping information to a file.

Any application (like GWorkspace) wishing to know about what file types are 
handled by what apps, reads the file rather than having to check all the 
applicatiuon directories.