Re: [Tracker] How does tracker recognize the mime type of a new file?

From: Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>
To: "Lin, Mengdong" <mengdong lin intel com>
Cc: Michele Tameni <michele tameni it>, "tracker-list gnome org" <tracker-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [Tracker] How does tracker recognize the mime type of a new file?
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:41:50 +0000

On 06/12/10 08:04, Lin, Mengdong wrote:

Then if I want to add new file format but its mime type is not
supported by glib yet, how to write a extractor plug-in for that
type? The tracker-extractor cannot find a matched plug-in for an
empty type.


Hi,

Essentially, it must be registered with the system. Please see:

  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info

--
Regards,
Martyn

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