On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:05, gemi(a)bluewin.ch wrote:
The mime-info database misses a lot of mime types.
Also most third-party applications don't come
with .desktop files and their corresponding
icons (For example I use Mathematica and Maple
and had to create .desktop files and mime-types
myself).
I propose therefore that there be an entry
form on Fedora home page where people can
submit this information.
I would hope users first try getting upstream to fix these problems.
.desktop files are now standard across all desktop environments, so
upstream authors only ever need to write one. MIME types are also
standard (or int he process of being standardized, anyways) and are easy
to "auto-plug" in.
Yes, *if* the upstream folks are dinks and won't fix it, distro hacks
would be necessary, but 'twould be nice to fix the problem at the
'source' if possible. ;-)
There could also be a program like appfinder,
that looks if there are applications installed
that it knows about and then installs the
corresponding .desktop files into
/usr/share/applications
Regards,
Gérard
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