Hi! On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:49 PM Joel Hockey via gimp-developer-list < gimp-developer-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> When I use GIMP in Chrome OS Linux environment, it does not automatically > associate *.xcf files with GIMP since there is a mismatch between the > /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop file which registers to handle mime > types including image/x-xcf and the system /etc/mime.types file which > associates extension xcf with mime type application/x-xcf. > > I'm one of the developers on Chrome OS. I believe most linux desktops are > using the xdg shared-mime-info database rather than /etc/mime.types, but we > haven't yet implemented that. > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/47ca1dc530d356336ffe1b7a45dc5dc8f0e528ca/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in#L5568 > > I am planning to request debian media-types package to update their > /etc/mime.types to use image/x-xcf rather than application/x-xcf which will > fix things for me if they are happy to change. > Indeed I think that image/x-xcf is the right one. I didn't even know of the application/x-xcf ! Does anyone know the history why these are different, or would there be any > issue if /etc/mime.types did change? > Sorry I don't. If you find the source of this duplicate, please do not hesitate to come and tell us later. 🙂 Jehan > Thanks, > Joel > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
