On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:36 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > 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. > > This is supposed to also work the other way: with the extension NOT > installed an user click on a file of that type and PackageKit pop-up, > ask about installing the extension, do its job, the extension is > installed and the file successfully opened? Then package-kit can't find anything, because you haven't registered the mime-type in any desktop files, so the fact that it's supported isn't advertised in the RPM headers. So the short answer is that you need a desktop file. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
