Themes MIME type

[Alberto Ruiz <arc gulic org>]

Hi,

I was discussing with thos the possibility to create a new MIME type for 
the themes packages so users can handle them with double-click once they 
download them.

The process to register a new MIME type on the system, according to The 
Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide is the following:

We should add two files into $(PREFIX)/share/mime-info/, name.mime and 
name.keys, where name is the application identifier or application 
suite. We should decide which application identifier to use and which 
file extensions to use, I'll take gnome-themes for the example purpose and

gnome-themes.mime might look like this:

-----------------------------------------
application/x-gnome-themes-gtk
   ext: gtf

application/x-gnome-themes-metacity
   ext: dtf

application/x-gnome-themes-metathemes
   ext: mtf
---------------------------------------------------------


gnome-themes.keys might look like this:

----------------------------------------
application/x-gnome-themes-gtk
   category=Theme/Gtk
   [es]category=Tema/Gtk
   description=Gtk Theme Package
   icon_filename=gtk-theme-package.png
   default_action_type = component
   open = gnome-theme-manager %f

application/x-gnome-themes-metacity
   ...
----------------------------------------


So, we should discuss which identifier to use, which extension name to 
use and how mane extension names we would choose.

Greetings,
Alberto Ruiz