shared-mime-info and desktops

[Dan Book]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Dan Book <grinnz at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> For a while now it's been possible for desktops to have their own mime
>> info (which is great), but it seems we have also gotten rid of the
>> generic one, which causes some strange behavior:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243049
>>
>> ie, /usr/share/applications/defaults.list no longer exists, and
>> shared-mime-info ships just a:
>> /usr/share/applications/gnome.list
>>
>> This leads to issues with tools that don't happen to be run under
>> gnome. Of course other desktops can (and probibly should) make their
>> own lists, but IMHO we should also have a generic one for tools not
>> running under any particular DE.
>>
>> So, my questions:
>>
>> 1. Can we add back a defaults.list ?
>>
>> 2. Should other DE's ship their lists also in shared-mime-info or
>> should they provide it as part of some other base package?
>> On the one hand one place might be nice, on the other it would make
>> shared-mime-info update more often and sometimes for things that don't
>> affect you.
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts...
>>
>> kevin
>>
>>
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>
> Cinnamon and MATE ship mimeapps lists (though they weren't functional
> until recently), and I am not sure if they are set up to work without the
> defaults. I think it makes more sense for the DE-specific mimelists to be
> shipped by the DE, and not a single package.
>

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon-desktop.git/tree/x-cinnamon-mimeapps.list
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mate-desktop.git/tree/mate-mimeapps.list
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