On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 02:30 -0700, Denis Leroy wrote: Hi, > I would like to know what is currently the "official" way for a > packager to add new MIME types and the correct corresponding > application bindings to Gnome in general, and Nautilus in particular. I > thought it was just a matter of dropping the right foo.keys and > foo.mime files into /usr/share/mime-info, but it turns out this has > pretty much zero effect on anything. Instead one has to edit the > somewhat obscure /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml file and > call the update-mime-database command. You shouldn't edit freedesktop.org.xml file, but copy your-package.xml to /usr/share/mime/packages/ and run update-mime-database /usr/share/mime > I understand this is being worked on in the next version of Gnome, but > for the time being, how is one supposed to do this from an RPM spec > file ? Regards Jan Arne Petersen
