On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:36 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Caolán McNamara wrote:
> So, here's the example scenario: Someone writes an extension for
>
OpenOffice.org writer which adds a file format importer and that gets
> packaged into Fedora. Is there a way to then register the extra
> mime-type that writer now supports if, and only if, that extension is
> installed.
This is supposed to also work the other way: with the extension NOT
installed an user click on a file of that type and PackageKit pop-up,
ask about installing the extension, do its job, the extension is
installed and the file successfully opened?
Then package-kit can't find anything, because you haven't registered the
mime-type in any desktop files, so the fact that it's supported isn't
advertised in the RPM headers.
So the short answer is that you need a desktop file.