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Strae
Asked: 2012-04-07 11:44:59 +0800 CST

How to Enable dragging files on custom application on launcher?

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In unity, we can drag files on application's button in the launcher to open that file with that application - however, looks like its hard to change default application.

I use Komodo as editor, and my goal is to open php files dragging on the Komodo button on the launcher.

The problem is that with gtk3 is a bit tricky to add custom application to open mimetypes..

I've created the button from the Main Menu, then i user mimeopen -d file.php to set komodo as default; Now, if i double-click on a php file, it get open with komodo - but I cant drag php files on komodo button on launcher.

unity mime-type

1 Answers

  1. All you have to do is editing the .desktop file of your application launcher. Browse for Komodo in /usr/share/applications/ and open it with your favourite text editor running as root (e.g. type sudo gedit on the terminal).

    What you have to focus on is the MimeType= part (add it if it doesn't exist): add application/x-php to the key, wich will let you drag and drop PHP files to Komodo, and then save the .desktop file.

    • For instance, your MimeType key should look like this: MimeType=text/plain;application/x-php;

    More information about Desktop Entry Files syntax here. A full list of Mime Types and their corresponding suffixes here.

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