"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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