New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

[Marc Pervaz Boocha]

Another option is maybe have an option in the the definition of 
mimetypes xml files to have some kind of derivation. So all text/xml is 
will be marked as text/plain for applications.

On 07/05/21 7:46 pm, Thayne wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2021, 04:18 Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sblachmann at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 5/7/21, Thayne McCombs <astrothayne at gmail.com
>     <mailto:astrothayne at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > I open text files in a lot of different formats, and I'd like to
>     be able
>      > to open
>      > them all with the same editor, but adding an entry for every text/*
>      > entry that I
>      > could ever possibly use to my mimeapps.list is quite a pain.
> 
>     This is why my opinion is that the correct and simplest way to deal
>     with that mess is not introducing more complicated configuration
>     bureaucracy, instead just respecting (e.g. memorizing) your preference
>     for each file type/format you showed by using OpenWith.
> 
> 
> But I don't want to be prompted seperately for every text type. I just 
> want to set the default for text/* once. I don't disagree with prompting 
> the user and storing the result, but that is orthogonal to being able to 
> make a default application for a wildcard. The prompt could even have an 
> option to make the app the default for all text, all images, etc.
> 
> And of course if there is a more specific rule (for example, a rule for 

> text/css) that would have higher precedence than a wildcard rule
> 
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