File "types" in gnome

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 23:52 +0200, Mohamed El Morabity wrote:

> 2010/5/4 Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>
> 
>         How does Gnome determine the "type" of a file...


> if I remember well, Nautilus relies on the MIME type of the file (as
> given for exemple by the « file » command, which uses libmagic as
> Nautilus). If Nautilus fails to detect it, then it relies on the
> extension file, like Windows.
> About your problem, maybe this could help you:
>    http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html
> But you'd better interact with upstream to define a new MIME type.

The link you gave me looks like the key to the problem.  I think the
audacity installation procedure isn't setting up mime type database
correctly.  More exactly, I think it isn't invoking
update-mime-database.

Thanks - jon

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