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Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data (inc GPX, FIT, TCX and KML files). You can import and plot tracks, routes and waypoints, show OpenStreetMaps (OSM), Bing Aerial and other maps, generate Mapnik maps, geotag images, make new tracks, routes and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc. It is written mostly in C with GTK
http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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filename associations issue (v1.7) #177

Open axd1967 opened 1 year ago

axd1967 commented 1 year ago

Viking installer )via Flatpack?) associates .vik with plain/text. As a result, Viking tries to open .txt files. Attempting to change this results in .vik files being opened by a text editor (eg GVim).

Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0 Qt Version: 5.12.8 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-153-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM

rnorris commented 1 year ago

Viking (on Linux) in so far as much as what is controlled by the application (versus anything what package distributors do) is contained in the file src\viking.deskop.in. I don't really know that gets used by the installer/end systems in relation to File Associations.

It only has entries for official Mime Types - as .vik files don't have official status:

MimeType=application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml;application/gpx+xml;

I use XFCE / Thunar and one can manually change the association of .vik files OK - so I don't know how your one works. Although my system can get messed up as I have Windows versions of Viking too - installed under Wine - (the Windows installer does perform file associations) - which then peculates through Wine somehow and messes with the native settings!