"Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 16:11:29 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:07 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:48 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:35:20 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information
> > > > from desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
> > > > "mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.
> > > 
> > > YOu know, I like that idea. A lot.
> > 
> > This will figure out the provides needed:
> > 
> > for i in `grep -h MimeType /usr/share/applications/* | sed "s/^MimeType=//" | sed "s/;/\n/g" | sort -u`; do echo "mime($i)"; done
> > 
> > Someone just has to turn it into a proper rpm find-provides thing.
> 
> While this may be a nice idea, it doesn't solve
> 
> a) editor vs viewer
> 
> b) inherited capabilities, ie totem can display any format gstreamer can
> handle, which in turn depends on installed plugins

It seems to me that the desktop file is the wrong place then to keep
that information.

Nils
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