MIME types (GNOME 2)

["Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists myrealbox com>]

I would post a bug, but I am having trouble with bugzilla on gnome right
now (not sure if it is on my end or not, but I bet it is).

Anyway, I also wanted to bring this up here as gnome seems have gone RC
in the last month while I wasn't able to pay attention.

It seems if a mime key is marked as deleted in
~/.gnome/mime-info/user.mime, then you cannot recreate it because it
will always be hidden.

You add icons to your hearts desire to mime types (sorry, this report
refers to audio, but it may be for all other types too), but they will
never show up, though they may or may not have been written into
user.keys.

You can create a new type, but you can only have (1) custom app to
handle it.  This is based on doing it directly from gnome control center
and through nautilus (though it just falls through to gnome control
center anyway).

Quite often, extra / at the beginning of categories and other such
oddities either crash the file types or nautilus, or both.  Killing
nautilus is required in such cases.  Some times these types will be
saved as a blank category then the real category (audio) then the type. 
Usually with a bit of work you can make these work by editing the
category and then kill nautilus and then it is back in Audio instead of
" "/Audio/whatever.

I do think this new file types thing is great, but it still has a lot of
bugs.  I do think this is critical.  Say, wave files.  They often are
recognized by nautilus as audio/x-riff instead of x-wav.  So I add the
type, automatically there is xmms, but it sounds like crap on some of my
waves, so I want to use /usr/bin/play and others (having multiple
choices like are available on predefined types), however, I can only
have one custom.  BTW, I have yet to make the custom work the way it
should.  Sure it saves it, but it never shows up in nautilus context
menus or anywhere but the file types setup.

Thanks, I can help with testing or what not, but I do think this is
critical.

Trever Adams