Mimeapps

Find and run associated applications for specific MIME-type.

This is Freedesktop only (GNU/Linux, *BSD and others).

Building the library

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Or with clang++:

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-stdlib=libc++
make

Running tests

You need Boost Test Library to build and run tests:

sudo apt-get install libboost-test-dev # On Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

Then run:

mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake ..
make unittests && ctest -V

Building and running examples

Openwith-cli

Simple command line utility that lists applications associated with MIME-type and let user to choose one of them to open file. It does not detect MIME-type automatically. By default file is considered to be text/plain type.

mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake ..
make openwith-cli && ./examples/openwith-cli/openwith-cli ../CMakeLists.txt

Run with MIME-type hint (in this example it opens directory):

make openwith-cli && ./examples/openwith-cli/openwith-cli .. inode/directory

Openwith-qt