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shidai.liu
October 13th, 2005, 10:42 AM
It'll be nice to have gnome/kde recognize some file formats by big commercial softwares such as Matlab, Mathematica and maple instead of displaying them with the unknown foot icon. No distribution is doing this. I hope ubuntu be the first one.
ssam
October 13th, 2005, 02:17 PM
is it just icons you want?

if its actually using the files, octave runs most .m files quite well. and i think you can get matlab for linux
shidai.liu
October 13th, 2005, 07:22 PM
is it just icons you want?

if its actually using the files, octave runs most .m files quite well. and i think you can get matlab for linux

Not just that. It's easy to do but it's nice to have. Even if you don't have matlab installed, you should be able to get some mime type information. For example, matlab .fig file is recognized as image/x-xfig though it can't be opened by xfig. Anyway, the shared-mime-info is in early development.