I use GpsPrune
to view some gps dumps, unfortunately there is no setting to double-click and open the files in the viewer. In older versions of Ubuntu you could just drag any file to the icon of an application, how do I do that or enable that in 12.10?
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Best Answer
I don't know what file types GPSprune handles and which, specifically, you are interested in. So for the sake of simplicity let's just say you want to open files with the
.foo
extension in GPSprune. These files however are recognized as text files or XML files rather than GPSprune specific files. What you will have to do then is to first define a new MIME type that is specific to these files.To do so you can either use assoGiate, a GUI file type editor, or manually define the new MIME type. In this tutorial I will show how to do this manually.
Create a new text file called
foo.xml
and open it up in your favorite text editor.Copy and paste the contents of the following text box:
Make sure to replace all instances of
.foo
with the actual extension and edit the comment/description to your wishes.Next save the file and move it to
~/.local/share/mime/packages
. Update the mime database by typing in a terminal:Your
.foo
files are now recognized as a separate MIME entity. You can check whether everything worked by right clicking on a.foo
file of your choice and looking at the file type listed underProperties
.Let's add an association to GPSprune now:
Open
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
in an editor of your choice. Search for the[Default Applications]
entry or create it if it doesn't exist yet. Then add the following line under default applications:You should now be able to immediately open up your
.foo
files with GPSprune and likely also to drag and drop them on the respective launcher.Sources and related Q&As:
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https://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/create-your-own-file-types-in-ubuntu-with-assogiate/