The point is that it does the lookup, how it does the lookup is up to whoever makes this new desktop. That person just has to make sure to provide a version of xdg-mime that works on this new desktop.
Waldo Bastian Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdg- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodney Dawes >Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:45 PM >To: Kevin Krammer >Cc: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >Subject: Re: (no subject) > >On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:07 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> In case you are referring to xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package, it does >> whatever the running desktop's utility does :) > >I am referring to that, yes. But what does it do, if one is writing a >new desktop, whose behavior is meant to be defined by these >specifications? Does it do the intended lookup via mimeinfo.cache? > >-- dobey > >_______________________________________________ >xdg mailing list >xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
