Aliases in mimeapps.list

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:12 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> [sorry for resending, CC was wrong in first email]
> 
> I have a question: how do you handle aliases in mimeapps.list?
> If someone writes
> application/pdf=app1.desktop;app2.desktop;
> application/x-pdf=app2.desktop;app3.desktop;
> and given that x-pdf is an alias for pdf, what happens?
> 
> AFAICS the only solution is to ignore lines about aliases,
> and only write down associations for the "real" mimetype, right?

Actually, what we currently do is unalias each type in the mimeapps.list
file as we read it, so in the above example the second line would
override the first. 

However, i don't think we ever produce mimeapps.list files with aliased
mimetypes, since all mimetypes that appear in the UI and such are
unaliased first. So, the only way to get such a file would be to edit it
manually.

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