Thanks Jehan, Debian will change this after their current release freeze. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991158 They have requested if gimp could register the mime type with iana? Charles offered help if needed: plessy@xxxxxxxxxx On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 6:54 AM Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:49 PM Joel Hockey via gimp-developer-list < > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> When I use GIMP in Chrome OS Linux environment, it does not automatically >> associate *.xcf files with GIMP since there is a mismatch between the >> /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop file which registers to handle mime >> types including image/x-xcf and the system /etc/mime.types file which >> associates extension xcf with mime type application/x-xcf. >> >> I'm one of the developers on Chrome OS. I believe most linux desktops are >> using the xdg shared-mime-info database rather than /etc/mime.types, but >> we >> haven't yet implemented that. >> >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/47ca1dc530d356336ffe1b7a45dc5dc8f0e528ca/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in#L5568 >> >> I am planning to request debian media-types package to update their >> /etc/mime.types to use image/x-xcf rather than application/x-xcf which >> will >> fix things for me if they are happy to change. >> > > Indeed I think that image/x-xcf is the right one. I didn't even know of > the application/x-xcf ! > > Does anyone know the history why these are different, or would there be any >> issue if /etc/mime.types did change? >> > > Sorry I don't. If you find the source of this duplicate, please do not > hesitate to come and tell us later. 🙂 > > Jehan > > >> Thanks, >> Joel >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-developer-list mailing list >> List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx >> List membership: >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list >> List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list >> > > > -- > ZeMarmot open animation film > http://film.zemarmot.net > Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/ > Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot > Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
