Re: [Gimp-developer] Mime type application/x-xcf in /etc/mime.types vs image/x-xcf in gimp.desktop

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi!

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:49 PM Joel Hockey via gimp-developer-list <
gimp-developer-list gnome org> wrote:

> When I use GIMP in Chrome OS Linux environment, it does not automatically
> associate *.xcf files with GIMP since there is a mismatch between the
> /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop file which registers to handle mime
> types including image/x-xcf and the system /etc/mime.types file which
> associates extension xcf with mime type application/x-xcf.
>
> I'm one of the developers on Chrome OS.  I believe most linux desktops are
> using the xdg shared-mime-info database rather than /etc/mime.types, but we
> haven't yet implemented that.
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/47ca1dc530d356336ffe1b7a45dc5dc8f0e528ca/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in#L5568
>
> I am planning to request debian media-types package to update their
> /etc/mime.types to use image/x-xcf rather than application/x-xcf which will
> fix things for me if they are happy to change.

Indeed I think that  image/x-xcf is the right one. I didn't even know of
the application/x-xcf !

Does anyone know the history why these are different, or would there be any
> issue if /etc/mime.types did change?

Sorry I don't. If you find the source of this duplicate, please do not
hesitate to come and tell us later. 🙂

Jehan


> Thanks,
> Joel
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