Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Stephen Watson]

>>> Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> 08/Jul/2004 10:12:33 >>>
>On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:22, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

>> Each application installs a .desktop file that lists the MIME Types
that
>> it can support.  A program is then run which caches a mapping of
MIME
>> Types to desktop files.  

>	I'm a tiny bit concerned about us continually overloading
.desktop
>files and that perhaps an app might want to be added to the mime
mapping
>but not the menus. Not a huge concern, its probably the best thing to
do
>overall.

The ROX desktop currently does not use .desktop files at all.