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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GNOME, .desktop support, nautilus and such
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-02-26 4:48:02
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On Sunday 25 February 2001 15:31, Seth Nickell wrote:
> The end result is that KDE and GNOME can and do both display the other's
> Applications in their launcher menus, but neither manages to detect the
> other's MimeType appropriately. Given that KDE considers an explicit
> "find new mime types" command an acceptable solution, I will probably be
> able to hack together a program to import .desktop file's MimeType field
> into the Nautilus database, providing approximately equivalent .desktop
> support for MIME typing to KDE. To be perfectly honest I don't *like*
> the centralized "database" (for goodness sakes, its not even structured
> XML or something, its plaintext, almost identical to .desktop except its
> a bunch in one file rather than seperate files :-/ ). However in the
> interests of compatibility it would be good if somebody (either from KDE
> or GNOME) wrote a little app that parses the files (its actually 3
> files, but you'd only really have to parse one I think to get .desktop
> level information) and gets the info to KDE somehow.

If you can send me the file spec and an example I'll have a look at it. 
Where is this file supposed to live?

Cheers,
Waldo
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