Re: GWorkspace odd behaviour

[Andreas Schik]

On 2005-02-03 10:08:31 +0100 Robin Rawson-Tetley <robin@rawsontetley.org> 
wrote:

[snip]

> I take it that apps need registering with GWorkspace then? I have just
> about every GNUstep app I could find installed, and I also have the
> appwrappers installed too. 

> If I navigate to $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Applications then I see them there
> ok and double-clicking on them opens them correctly in GWorkspace.

> > Be aware that GWorkspace does not handle any file type "out-of-the-box", 
> > but merely starts the application that registered for a file type and 
> > displays the icon registered by this app.

> Ahh - so the problem must be that no file type handlers are actually
> registered in GWorkspace? Any idea how I do this? I've looked through

In a shell type make_services and then start GWorkspace. If this helps the 
make_services command needs to be put into one of the startup scripts. 
make_services registers the apps in {Local,System}/Applications with the 
GNUstep servers, AFAIK. Don't ask me with which one, though :-)

[snip]

> I think the desktop.app problems are related to the same thing (it's
> tied heavily into GWorkspace, right?). 
If it is actually the make_services that it missing, I'd guess so, too, yes. 
GWorkspace then won't be able to find its own background services as well.


Andreas

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