broken .desktop files

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Sun Feb 24 23:22:01 CET 2008


On Monday 25 February 2008 00:13:04 Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:59:05 +0200
>
> Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > please now revert the change that made MimeType terminated with
> > semicolon.
> >
> > you broke KDE mimetypes (it sees it as "application/x-mplayer2;" not
> > as "application/x-mplayer2"
>
> according to standard [1] this change is correct.
>
> [1]
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.0.
>html#mime-types

apparently it applies only to Type=Application as Type=MimeType is deprecated:

C. Deprecated Items

Type=MimeType is deprecated as there is a new standard for this now, see the 
Shared MIME-info Database specification for more information.

-- 
glen


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