Re: "Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

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On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:48 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:35:20 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information
> > > from desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
> > > "mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.
> > 
> > YOu know, I like that idea. A lot.
> 
> This will figure out the provides needed:
> 
> for i in `grep -h MimeType /usr/share/applications/* | sed "s/^MimeType=//" | sed "s/;/\n/g" | sort -u`; do echo "mime($i)"; done
> 
> Someone just has to turn it into a proper rpm find-provides thing.

While this may be a nice idea, it doesn't solve

a) editor vs viewer

b) inherited capabilities, ie totem can display any format gstreamer can
handle, which in turn depends on installed plugins

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