Re: [gcmd-dev] mimetypes handling - CORRECTION

[Uwe Scholz]

Hi Michael,

thank you very much for the detailed analysis of the mime-handling
stuff. I'll set this on my ToDo List. Fur future compatibility it is
certainly something we have to look at.

If someone is willing to have a look at it, please feel free to do so. I
by myself want to fix another known issue (*) before this one.

This reminds me that I have to update
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-commander/plain/TODO as well...

Best wishes,
Uwe

(*) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570733



Michael <address@hidden> schrieb am [Wed, 17.06.2015 17:45]:
> > == mimeinfo.cache ==
> 
> # Comment:
> #
> # oops that was a copy & paste mistake !!
> # The first half of the paragraph is about this file:
> #
> 
> == mime.cache ==
> 
> The file resides in /usr/share/mime/ and there are several more related 
> files, like "globs" and "globs2" (telling the file suffixes), or "magic" 
> (identifying file headers).
> 
> I can't really tell what exactly is in there since mimeinfo.cache contains 
> binary data (congrats, freedesktop!); if you need to know the specs:
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html#idm140625828626720
> 
> and if you look into it (with strings or mcview) there's an awful lot of 
> clutter, like "Windows Registry" entries or Google links...i hate this.
> 
> # Comment:
> #
> # Only the second half of the paragraph is about mimeinfo.cache:
> #
> 
> == mimeinfo.cache ==
> 
> >From archwiki: "When the program update-desktop-database is run (usually as 
> >root during the (un)installation of a package), it updates files called  
> >mimeinfo.cache in the /usr/local/share/applications and 
> >/usr/share/applications directories. These files keep track of which 
> >MIME-types are associated with which .desktop files overall. This file 
> >should not be edited by the user."
>  
> After inserting a new mimetype, system runs:
> update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
> update-mime-database    ~/.local/share/mime
> 
> 
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