New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 00:36:22 -0700, Thayne wrote:
> I'd like to point out that on Ubuntu 20.04 there are no system
> mimeapps.list files provided (either for DE or globally).

It seems like an Ubuntu bug report would be appropriate, if that's true.
Debian has at least these:

cinnamon-desktop-data: /usr/share/applications/x-cinnamon-mimeapps.list
gnome-session-common: /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list

and I'd be surprised if Ubuntu has taken steps to remove the one shipped
by Debian when deriving their gnome-session package from Debian's...

> It also puts the burden of
> maintaining that list on package maintainers rather than distributing
> it among applications developers.

A distribution's *entire job* is integration: taking software produced by
lots of disparate application developers (each developer presumably
thinking the application they maintain is the best, otherwise they wouldn't
still be maintaining it) and putting it together into something that works
as an overall system. This is necessarily going to involve some opinionated
decisions, both in what the distribution installs by default and in what
the distribution lists as preferred.

    smcv