El Diumenge, 21 d'octubre de 2012, a les 18:15:49, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> (follow-ups please only to kde-devel)
> 
> I am looking for a way to deal with the issue that the list of supported
> mimetypes for some programs depends on the installed i/o plugins. E,g,
> Marble and most Calligra programs have this problem.
> 
> Simply hardcoding all possibly supported mimetypes only leaves bad
> impressions if a program is started for a file after e.g. a click on the
> file in the file manager, but then gives an error message after starting
> that it cannot read the file.
> 
> It is not only about the i/o plugins created at build time. But some
> distributions also tend to put single i/o plugins in different packages, so
> just updating the "Mimetype=" entry in the .desktop file on build-time (by
> generating another .desktop file) before it is installed will not work for
> these.
> 
> So how can this problem be solved?

Do what okular does (i.e. one desktop per plugin)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Is it possible to update the installed desktop file of a programs on install
> of another package, like another input plugin?
> How would this need to be noted in our sources, so it would happen
> automatically, or that packagers know they have to add something to the
> post- install part of the input plugin package?
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
> 
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