Re: Registering MIME types and applications

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what an application should do to register a new
> MIME type with GNOME 2.6, and to register itself as an application that
> is capable of opening that MIME type.
>
> I have found the following techniques. Maybe there are more. I'd like to
> know which of these are outdated and which are the new approved
> techniques. Also, should an application register itself with multiple
> (old and new) MIME-type systems?
>
> 1. Registering the MIME-type by putting a .xml file in 
> <prefix>/share/mime/packages, 
> and running update-mime-database.
>
> 2. Registering the application by putting an .applications file in 
> <prefix>/share/application-registry/
>
> 3. Registing the application by putting a .desktop file in 
> <prefix>/share/applications/
>
> 4. Registering the MIME-type by putting a .mime file in 
> <prefix>/share/mime-info/
>
> 5. Registering the application by putting a .keys file in 
> <prefix>/share/mime-info/
>
> I thought that 1, 2, and 3, were the new ways to do this, but it only
> causes Nautilus to show the MIME-type (e.g. application/x-glom), but not
> the MIME-type's name. And it does not know that it should launch glom to
> open that file.

This is a bug in gnome-vfs. Descriptions are read from the old database, 
not the new one.