On Thu, Mar 17, 2016, at 01:29 PM, kendell clark wrote: > Thanks for your help. How would I go about getting a unique string of > data, integer, text string, whatever to add to the mime type to make it > unique? Most of the mime types I want to add are binary so can't be > opened in a traditional text editor, and I know little about hex > editors.
A hex editor is a good place to start. Usually, the main view is the hex representation of the binary data (hex is handy because two hex digits can represent any byte). Then surrounding that, you have views showing what each part of the data could mean if interpreted as a string or as different formats of numbers. However, it's hard to identify a consistent and unique piece of data just by looking at these, so ideally you should look for some documentation describing the file format. There was a bug years ago where printing from OpenOffice failed on a Tuesday, which turned out to be because an insufficiently unique magic number was causing a file type to be misidentified: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161 > I'd like to also improve xcontent/* mime types so that they're > more accurate, as far as I can tell by looking in mime-editor they have > directory structure matches set with a priority of 50, but nothing there > to match. I don't know about that; hopefully someone else will be able to help you with it. Thomas _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
