[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: generic mimetypes on windows
From:       Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-04-20 4:51:33
Message-ID: 462846D5.8070304 () gmx ! de
[Download RAW message or body]


Pino Toscano schrieb:
> Alle 21:24, giovedì 19 aprile 2007, Christian Ehrlicher ha scritto:
>> Anyone knows how we can create the 'default' mimetypes like text/plain
>> on windows? kde.xml only creates the kde specific ones and I can't find
>> a generic.xml somewhere...
> 
> I think you misunderstood something about the freedesktop.org MIME system: the 
> common archive with the most common MIME types (and the main MIME type 
> utility) is available under the name of shared-mime-info[1]. You need to have 
> that, since 6 weeks or so (otherwise you would not even start compiling 
> kdelibs).
> You need also to point to the XDG data directory with the mime stuff using the 
> XDG_DATA_DIRS envvar. On Unix it could be eg:
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=$KDEDIR/share:${shared-mime-info-prefix}/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
> On Windows, try to make sure ${shared-mime-info-prefix}/share is in it.
> Then run kbuildsycoca4.
> 
> [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info
Thx, as Andreas Pakulat pointed out, I forgot to install 
freedesktop.org.xml. It was a pain compiling update-mime-database on 
windows so I did not notice this file once the executable linked fine ;)

Thx,
Christian


["signature.asc" (application/pgp-signature)]

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]