Re: Modified .desktop for GNOME 2.8

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, [iso-8859-5] °àâñÜ ¿ÞßÞÒ wrote:

> On lun, 2004-09-13 at 15:21 +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, [iso-8859-5] °à âñ� ¿���� wrote:
> >
> > > Included a small patch, which adds "MimeType=" line to beast.desktop.in
> > > (in GNOME 2.8 missing MimeType= in desktop will lead to not recognizing
> > > the app) --Artem
> >
> > hm, are there 2.8 specific changes you are referring to?
> > i've added the mime types to the desktop.in file now.
> > however, the /usr/share/mime-info/ *.mime and *.keys files
> > don't seem to work for me anyways (every mime type defined
> > therein is not recognized by nautilus on a recent debian),
> > and without working mime type detection for bse/bsewave files,
> > adding the entries in the .desktop files is of doubtfull use.
> >
>
> There's more info on this here:
> http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1885
> http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-
> July/msg00302.html
>
> General answer is yes, MimeType= in .desktop is required...

well, i was looking it up in last available version of the .desktop
file standard at:
	http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec
which is 0.9.3 and does not yet cover the MimeType= field.

>
> > ---
> > ciaoTJ
> >

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