Re: Important desktop-wide change (MIME)

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Then somelike like Havoc's suggestion might be worthwhile then.  We
could have some sort of syntax to allow one .desktop file to inherit
mime information from some set of .desktop files.  A dummy
gstreamer .desktop file could ben present for gstreamer-using apps to
inherit from.

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:59 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:48, Rob Adams wrote:
> > Could we use a similar hack for adding extra MIME types then?  Each gst-
> > plugin could install a .desktop with
> > 
> > Exec=gst-player/whatever
> > MimeType=video/mpeg...
> > NoDisplay=true
> > 
> > The MIME system could then be smart enough to group together
> > all .desktop files with the same Exec line, or we could have a X-Gnome-
> > AppId=2093758-23alksjd93-lakjsd83 line with a guid that we could group
> > on.
> 
> That works for individual programs, but not for extensible libraries. If
> gstreamer suddenly gains video/x-something-special support, you can't
> add video/x-something-special to all gstreamer-supporting apps.
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
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