introduction

[Thomas Kluyver]

Hi Kendell,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016, at 12:26 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> I'm completely new to all of this, so how would this be
> done? Hex editor?

The XDG Mime data is written in an XML format in the shared-mime-info
repository:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/

That is then used to generate the binary indexes of mimetypes, so you
shouldn't need to edit those directly.

Thomas