On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 11:17 +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote: > So, here's the example scenario: Someone writes an extension for > OpenOffice.org writer which adds a file format importer and that gets > packaged into Fedora. Is there a way to then register the extra > mime-type that writer now supports if, and only if, that extension is > installed. > > The mime-type field in .desktops > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html > basically assumes a static list of supported mime-types. Adding the > mime-type to the writer list would claim that it always can open the > type, which isn't true if the extension isn't installed. Yeah, this is a bit of a problem. Especially with things like apps using gstreamer thus being one step removed from what filetypes are supported. > So is the right solution to install a new .destop along with that > extension with NoDisplay=true set and the list of extra mime-types that > the extension adds to writer and then use the same Exec line from the > normal parent package .desktop ? This sounds like it could work. Have you tried it? I can't think of a better approach really. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
