Re: Mallard syntax highlight and MIME type

["A. Walton" <awalton gnome org>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Milo Casagrande<milo casagrande name> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm bringing up here some of the small topics that were not covered
> during yesterday docs meeting.
>
> I've been adding Mallard syntax highlight to gtksourceview, it's in
> master right now and will be in 2.28 (but it's easy to have also in
> the distro you are running now, you need to add it by hand though).
>
> The syntax highlight is based on the docbook one with some
> modification. Take a look at it, this is the commit:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gtksourceview/commit/?id=01a63b0652e16dfd6f455e21ca0a798c60e965c0
>
> Related to the syntax highlight thing, talking with the gtksourceview
> maintainer, he suggested we ask for a Mallard MIME type to
> freedesktop.org.
>
> I think it would be nice to have a Mallard MIME type for GNOME, what
> do you think? And, does somebody know how to request or add a new MIME
> type?

File a bug against shared-mime-info on fd.o. It's generally expected
that you attach a demo file. I'm not certain on the rules for adding
new types, whether they have to be in common use or not, but it can't
hurt to file the bug.

-A. Walton

>
> Ciao.
>
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> Milo Casagrande <milo casagrande name>
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