Chapter 8. Using MimeTypes

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Mime Type specs
Writing MIME Type association files
FreeDesktop.org/KDE
Gnome 2.x
Associating Applications with MIME types
.desktop file
Gnome .applications file

Mime Types are somewhat of a mess on the Linux desktop. KDE and Gnome each have their own ways of defining mime-types, along with FreeDesktop.org who has introduced another standard trying to bring some organization to this madness. Autopackage has API calls for installing the files for each standard.

Mime Type specs