Supporting mime types in desktop actions

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 03 April 2012 18:40:04 Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> Writing the intents spec, I found out that according to the desktop entry
> spec:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-lates
> t.html Desktop Actions do not support a MimeType key. Is there a solid
> reason why?

I can't think of another reason than "the need for it never popped up before".

> My use case:
> I have an image viewer and editor which supports viewing jpg and png,
> however it can only *edit* png files. The "Edit" action would then only
> support image/png while the main entry would support image/jpeg and
> image/png.
> 
> One of the issues raised by supporting it is associating a mime type to an
> action (rather than a desktop file altogether).
> I propose the following syntax for mimeapps.list
> 
> image/jpeg=myapp.desktop;
> image/png=myapp.desktop;myapp.desktop[Edit];

OK, but this also needs a fix in the desktop entry spec, right?
For the case where the developer already knows in the first place that the app 
can only edit PNGs.

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