This small package installs MIME types and file icons for Multics (http://www.multicians.org) source code and archive files. When browsing local directories or FTP repositories, applicable files will be shown with a distinctive icon and can be configured to open appropriately.

It has been developed and tested using KDE, but the installed MIME type data and icons follow the freedesktop.org standard and so in theory should be usable under GNOME or any other desktop or file manager that supports that standard.

What to do when the files are opened is determined by the file manager or desktop environment configuration, and is not set by this package. By default, source files should be opened in a text editor or viewer (because of the freedesktop rule for text/*). Archive files require an file manager or archive reader that understands the Multics format, see http://github.com/martenjj/multics-archive-kio for a plugin that allows them to be browsed using Konqueror or Dolphin.

The package and all the files contained in it is licensed under the GNU GPL V3+; see the file LICENSE for more information.

This package does not require a full KDE installation, but only the extra-cmake-modules component of that. CMake is required for building; Qt is not required either for building or at runtime.

Assuming that you have these installed or already provided by your distro, go to a suitable build location (e.g. your home directory) and do:

 git clone https://github.com/martenjj/multics-mimetypes.git
 cd multics-mimetypes
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake ..
 make
 sudo make install

No configuration or setup is required. Simply use whatever file manager you prefer, and the icons should appear for appropriate Multics file types.

Please raise an issue on GitHub (at http://github.com/martenjj/multics-mimetypes) if there are any problems with installing or using this package, in particular if there are any incompatibilities with other desktop environments or file managers apart from KDE.

I'm not a talented icon artist, so any design improvements or new icons to match other themes would also be most appreciated!

Jonathan Marten, http://github.com/martenjj