Re: File types menu entry gone

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 19:56 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
>  
>
> > I can't see that this explains how to add a MIME type, or whatever 
> > happened to the "internet services" config, which was what I was 
> > actually looking for right now...
> >    
>
> It's the very first thing mentioned on the "What's New" page.
>
> In short, you can't add a new MIME type or protocol handler in the UI,
> you have to edit .desktop files.
Also, is really mime type information encoded in .desktop? Urgh, that's 
exactly what I tried explaining to the KDE people many years ago was a 
really bad idea. - Because menus, which .desktop files are otherwise 
used for, and MIME handlers represent completely different 
functionality, so their setup shouldn't be mixed.

>  You can reassign the handler for an
> existing MIME type, however.  In a rather backwards and user-model-
> breaking fashion, unfortunately.
>