Shared mimetypes + activation

[Waldo Bastian]

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Hi,

Last night I have been talking with Jonathan Blandford about the shared 
mimetype spec and the activation issues. Both Jonathan and I hope to move 
that forward in the next weeks.

Some relevant threads from the past:
*  MIME Activation
	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.xdg.devel/554 (Mar 2003)
*  Default Program | File Association
	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-January/003134.html
* Associating a mime-type with an icon
	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-February/003390.html
	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-March/003493.html
* Associating programs with file types (
	http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-March/003442.html

A proposal for the behavior of the new MIME system in GNOME:
	http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/

The issues that need to be looked at can be split into two distinct problems:
* Which icon to use for a mimetype (icons)
* Which actions/programs are associated with a mimetype (activation)

For ease of reference I will bifurcate (I learned a new word!) this thread 
into one for icons and one for activation. More to come... stay tuned.

Cheers,
Waldo
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