[Portland] installing MIME-types

[Bastian, Waldo]

Hi Harald,

Re 1) the process is to include the mimetype in the application's .desktop file. 

Re 2) a mimetype without x- must be registered with IANA. Using a vnd. prefix is a good idea, yes.

Re 3) Yes you need to use the xdg-icon-resource command to install an icon. The icon name is derived from the mimetype. No, SVG is not very well supported (I was under the impression it's mention had been removed from the manual)

Cheers,
Waldo
 
Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro, Oregon
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From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Harald Nikolisin
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 1:52 AM
To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [Portland] installing MIME-types

hi,

I'm trying to expand our installation script to install GUI programs properly on a linux desktop.
while xdg-desktop-menu is quite straightforward, I have some problems with xdg-mime and maybe someone can answer my questions.

this is the manual example of xdg-mime
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shinythings-shiny.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'>
  <mime-type type="text/x-shiny">
    <comment>Shiny new file type</comment>
    <glob pattern="*.shiny"/>
    <glob pattern="*.shi"/>
  </mime-type>
</mime-info>
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1) Is there no possibility to list applications in a specific order which are able to open "text/x-shiny" files?
2) What is the difference for mime-type "text/x-shiny" to "text/shiny"? Besides this, if Shiny is an ISV it should also prefix its mimetype with and "vnd.", or am I wrong?
3) The associated icons to that filetype are not declared in this xml file? Do I have to use the xdg-icon-resource script?

last question not related to xdg-mime. "Icon resources can be XPM files, PNG files or SVG files." (from xdg-icron-resourc manual) - Is either KDE 3.3 or Gnome 2.x able to render SVG icons in its menu or filemanager?

PS: I also would have searched the mailing lists for that topic to avoid duplicating entries but portland.freedesktop.org is currently down.

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