You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Add file type/mime type support for dropbox in linux.
Files in dropbox are stored as .gdoc when created with google docs, .gsheet when created with google sheets, .gslides when created with google slides, .paper when created with dropbox paper and finally, .papert when created from paper templates. but they are stored as plain text files in linux desktop. please add the file type support for .gdoc, .gsheet, .gslides, .paper & .papert in dropbox for Linux OS and add icons for the file types. 1. These are the icons I recommend for .gdoc, .gsheet and .gslides files:- 2. Create the following xml files:- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/vnd.google-apps.document"> <comment>Google document</comment> <glob pattern="*.gdoc"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> name this file as gdoc.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"> <comment>Google spreadsheet</comment> <glob pattern="*.gsheet"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> name this file as gsheet.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/vnd.google-apps.presentation"> <comment>Google presentation</comment> <glob pattern="*.gslides"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> and finally, name this file as gslides.xml Finally, move these xml files to/usr/share/mime/packages. 3. Update the mime database with the command " sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime " in terminal and the dev team, please add support for opening these file types in dropbox through firefox or any default os browser like in windows and mac.
