shared-mime-info and desktops

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi 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 ?
> 
> +1 I'm in favor, but ship it as mimeapps.list to comply with modern
> related standards, see:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.html#file
> 
> Proposal: ship a generic/default mimeapps.list initially based on content
> of gnome-mimeapps.list
> 
> I'm volunteering to maintain it if/when decisions are made to stray from
> gnome-mimeapps.list at all.

Submitted,
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/shared-mime-info-1.4-6.fc22

-- Rex