Re: The gnome MIME mess
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 02:30 -0700, Denis Leroy wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know what is currently the "official" way
for a
packager to add new MIME types and the correct corresponding
application bindings to Gnome in general, and Nautilus in particular. I
thought it was just a matter of dropping the right foo.keys and
foo.mime files into /usr/share/mime-info, but it turns out this has
pretty much zero effect on anything. Instead one has to edit the
somewhat obscure /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml file and
call the update-mime-database command.
You shouldn't edit freedesktop.org.xml file, but copy your-package.xml
to /usr/share/mime/packages/ and run
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
I understand this is being worked on in the next version of Gnome,
but
for the time being, how is one supposed to do this from an RPM spec
file ?
Regards
Jan Arne Petersen