xdg-utils vs GNOME/XFCE (Fedora 8)
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 18 19:59:48 UTC 2008
wwp wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
> I can't get some custom MIME settings to work in GNOME and XFCE. When I
> set them using xdg-utils and the xdg-mime command I use returns 0.
> konqueror even acknowledges the changes. I tried restarting my GNOME
> and XFCE sessions, but my custom MIME types are not effective in
> nautilus and thunar.
kde (v3 anyway) uses a different MIME system than gnome/xfce(*), so setting
a mimetype within a kde3 session affects *only* kde (and like-wise setting
a mime association from within gnome/xfce won't touch kde).
-- Rex
(*) shared-mime-info spec. kde4 uses this now too.
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