[Portland-bugs] [Bug 30449] New: xdg-mime ought to use shared-mime-info

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30449

           Summary: xdg-mime ought to use shared-mime-info
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: jim.duchek at gmail.com


xdg-mime falls back (if not using GNOME or KDE) to 'file -i' to determine a
file's type.  As there is no current way to get shared-mime-info to pop out a
file(1)-compatible magic file, this leaves xdg-utils entirely separated from
shared-mime-info, which is (I believe) freedesktop's preferred way of parsing
mime types. 

Specific case, file(1)'s magic DB does not have a mime entry for vCalendar
(ics) files (which is a file(1) problem, not xdg-utils), so 'xdg-mime query
filetype test.ics' returns text/plain.

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