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 Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 2:10 AM Joel Hockey <joelhockey chromium org> wrote:

> Thanks Jehan,
>
> Debian will change this after their current release freeze.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991158
>
> They have requested if gimp could register the mime type with iana?

Sure why not.

Charles offered help if needed: plessy debian org
>

Definitely yes. I have started to fill the form (
https://www.iana.org/form/media-types), but they ask for a lot of
information I'm not sure of (even looking at the RFC they link as
references). So I would appreciate some feedback. Charles' email has been
added in recipients of this thread.

Attached is my first try at filling the form. Would anyone mind review and
tell me if I misunderstood anything? I left a lot of notes here and there
for reviewers because there were many stuff I was not sure of.
Thanks!

Jehan


> On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 6:54 AM Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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