Re: registering a mime-type

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:08 +0000, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 09:31 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Assuming we're talking about a recent GNOME that uses shared-mime-info,
> > this tutorial from the FreeDesktop.org specification pages for the MIME
> > system covers adding new entries:
> > http://freedesktop.org/Standards/AddingMIMETutor
> 
> Thanks. That looks perfect.

Hmm, do you know whether Nautilus/gnome-vfs 2.6 actually uses that? I've
added an entry with a file pattern (but no "magic"), but Nautilus does
not seem to recognise it. update-mime-database does seem to have
processed the new entry properly.
 
> > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 10:30, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > How should an application register a mime-type for its documents? Should
> > > this happen at install time or runtime? Is there a good example of an
> > > application that does this?
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