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On 28. 08. 20 13:33, Bastien Nocera wrote:
I'm sorry, I read through the mail, but I don't understand what you'd want me to say, or what questions you'd want me to answer.
You pretty much answered all the questions. Thanks.
In short, I've maintained the upstream shared-mime-info for 16 years, and now is the time to let others in the community maintain it, both upstream and downstream. It is still absolutely required, but it's not important enough to be able to set time aside for.
Understood.
As for the mimeapps.list, you might need to peruse the shared-mime-info specifications, which explain what the different files do: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/
How is the list maintained in Fedora? Is there some working group (e.g. workstation) overseeing this or is it just the shared-mime-info package maintainer? Or is it Rex as indicated in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-July/212403.html ?
It used to a direct copy of the Workstation (GNOME) defaults. Now it's a copy of nothing, and folks that care about it can ask the new maintainer for changes.
The GNOME/Workstation defaults now live in the gnome-desktop3 package. I'd encourage other desktops to ship their own mimeapps.list files to set defaults, and leave the mimeapps.list in shared-mime-info well alone (it shouldn't be needed, but "it broke things" not to have, and I never actually knew what it broke).