Re: [Gimp-developer] Mime type application/x-xcf in /etc/mime.types vs image/x-xcf in gimp.desktop

Thanks Jehan,

Debian will change this after their current release freeze.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=991158

They have requested if gimp could register the mime type with iana?
Charles offered help if needed: [email protected]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 6:54 AM Jehan Pagès <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:49 PM Joel Hockey via gimp-developer-list <
> [email protected]> 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
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