Am Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:08:18 +0000 schrieb devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:47:14 -0600 > From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: shared-mime-info and desktops > Message-ID: <20150715144714.2063c74b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Greetings. > > For a while now it's been possible for desktops to have their own mime > info (which is great), but it seems we have also gotten rid of the > generic one, which causes some strange behavior: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243049 > > ie, /usr/share/applications/defaults.list no longer exists, and > shared-mime-info ships just a: > /usr/share/applications/gnome.list > > This leads to issues with tools that don't happen to be run under > gnome. Of course other desktops can (and probibly should) make their > own lists, but IMHO we should also have a generic one for tools not > running under any particular DE. > > So, my questions: > > 1. Can we add back a defaults.list ? Yes, if desktop mimeapp.lists have higher priority. > > 2. Should other DE's ship their lists also in shared-mime-info or > should they provide it as part of some other base package? > On the one hand one place might be nice, on the other it would make > shared-mime-info update more often and sometimes for things that don't > affect you. > > Thanks for any thoughts... > > kevin Mate and Cinnamon desktop ships already their own mimeapp.list with a desktop package. Wolfgang -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
