File associations 14.04

[Johnny Rosenberg]

I want to associate all my FLAC files with four scripts that I made a
couple of years ago. In 10.10 this was very easy: Right click the file,
Properties, then go on associating…

In 12.04 this didn't work any more, so I needed to install Ubuntu Tweak and
go from there.

Now, in 14.04, I installed the latest Ubuntu Tweak, that is said to support
14.04, according to this:
http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2014/04/21/ubuntu-tweak-0-8-7-released-14-04-ready.html

I installed it like this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Seems to work fine. The main window appears and there are a lot of things
to change.
However, when I right click a FLAC file, then ”open with”, none of my
scripts are in the list!

At the same time I also installed Audacious, which I associated as default
application for FLAC files. That one was actually added to the list, but
not my own scripts.

I think I done everything right, but maybe I missed something. Here's what
I checked:
☒ Make sure the script’s location is included in PATH
    They are located in ~/bin
        ~$ echo $PATH

/home/guraknugen/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
        ~$
    So that one seems OK.

☒ Make sure every script has a desktop file located in
~/.local/share/applications.
    Here's one of them:
        $ cat view-flac-tags.desktop
        [Desktop Entry]
        Name=FlacTaggar – Visa
        Exec=/home/guraknugen/bin/view-flac-tags
        Icon=/home/guraknugen/Eget/.Ikoner/FlacTags-View.svg
        Terminal=false
        Version=1.0
        X-Ubuntu-Tweak=true
        Type=Application

        $
    Seems OK too, right?

So what's going on? And where do Ubuntu Tweak store the file associations?
Maybe I should just edit the files myself…?


Johnny Rosenberg
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