(no subject)

[Bastian, Waldo]

The point is that it does the lookup, how it does the lookup is up to
whoever makes this new desktop. That person just has to make sure to
provide a version of xdg-mime that works on this new desktop.

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xdg-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Rodney Dawes
>Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:45 PM
>To: Kevin Krammer
>Cc: xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Re: (no subject)
>
>On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:07 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> In case you are referring to xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package, it
does
>> whatever the running desktop's utility does :)
>
>I am referring to that, yes. But what does it do, if one is writing a
>new desktop, whose behavior is meant to be defined by these
>specifications? Does it do the intended lookup via mimeinfo.cache?
>
>-- dobey
>
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