Hi List,
new here, so excuse me if this is wrong place to ask this question.
I've tried to do my home work, spent some ten hours in the web but I still do
not know the answer.
How do I do file/mime/application associations in the freedesktop.org style?
I understand that I create a myapp.xml file in /usr/bin/mime/packages and then
run update-mime-database.
But as far as I understand this only associates, in practical terms, my mime
type, a description of the type and file extension together, no icon.
I then create a myapp.desktop file and run update-desktop-database which
associates my mime type, executable and icon and a description of the application.
Now the part I don't understand:
The icon in the .desktop file, is that an icon for the application or the
document (mime typed) file? Or both?
How can I get a separate icon for the application and document? What if my
application supports several document (mime) types?
I figured this could be be done with a .desktop file with the Type=Mimetype and
Patterns=*.ext but these are deprecated?
I've read the icon naming spec and icon theme spec but I just don't get it.
Please advice or give pointers.
cheers Kusti
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