On 3 October 2016 at 21:09, Maxwell Anselm
wrote:
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> I am willing to help develop these changes, but only if it is clear that
> such contributions would actually be welcome and accepted.
>
This would be great to see.
As an occasional xdg-utils contributor and sometime /usr/bin/file
maintaine
Regarding the standard for the association between MIME types and
applications (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/),
xdg-utils provides the tools xdg-mime (for querying a file's MIME type) and
xdg-open (for opening applications based on MIME-type).
xdg-mime and xdg-open
