----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 12:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > +1 I'm in favor, but ship it as mimeapps.list to comply with modern related > > standards, see: > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html#file > > The modern spec is what provides for desktop-specific defaults. > > > Proposal: ship a generic/default mimeapps.list initially based on content > > of > > gnome-mimeapps.list > > A generic mimeapps.list would apply to *all* desktops, which doesn't > make much sense as the expected defaults on e.g. KDE would differ quite > a bit from GNOME. The desktop-specific mimeapps.list is scanned first, and then the generic one. The generic one cannot override the desktop specific one. So if you have a mimeapps.list which is the same as the old version (eg. basically the same content as gnome-mimeapps.list), it will not override whatever settings you have in kde-mimeapps.list, just fill in the blanks. > IMO the steps to fix this are: > > 1) for *all* spec-compliant desktops (IOW all current GIO-based ones: > GNOME, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, XFCE) to ship their own desktop-specific > *-mimeapps.list. > > 2a) fix KDE to conform to the spec, OR > > 2b) store KDE's defaults in mimeapps.list, and make sure that the others > cover all the mimetypes provided thereby. > > 3) In mimeapps.list, add any Added/Removed Associations deemed > necessary. You can't have Added/Removed associations in the default mimeapps.list, only in the desktop specific one. Which is of dubious value, unless you want to say "this desktop file doesn't support this mime-type". In most cases, you'll want to add that information to the .desktop file in question instead. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
