New `MimeType` fields in .desktop

[Thayne]

On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 8:35 AM Marc Pervaz Boocha <mboocha at sudomsg.xyz>
wrote:

> 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.
>

that seems more complicated to me than a system that uses the default app
for text/* if there isn't one assigned for text/xml at the same level, and
I'm not sure what the benefit is. Note that I'm only proposing that the
wildcard would be allowed as the entireity of the type after the slash.
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