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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

do the fad engineering distros even define those types?

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps. In general this should be the job of the distribution, but I'm not
> sure we can count on the distributions to define such application-specific
> types. Anyone else have comments on this?
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 01:36:17PM -0500, José Ignacio wrote:
>> On May 30, 2016 7:53 AM, "Chris Pavlina" <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Committed with cleanups.
>> >
>> > I used application/x-gerber and application/x-excellon for Gerber and
>> Excellon
>> > formats. There is a bit of disagreement over the proper MIME types for
>> those,
>> > but those are what gerbv uses, so we might as well not be different just
>> for
>> > the sake of it. We should probably add an association between the mime
>> type and
>> > the usual extensions as well, as I don't think those are generally
>> recognize -
>> > not sure how to do that, perhaps you could follow up?
>>
>> I'm inclined to let distributions define generic types like gerber and
>> excellon. It would not be proper to define them in the kicad mime package
>> imo, as they are not kicad-specific. I can write up a package for standard
>> gerber files that can be installed optionally if the user doesnt have the
>> mime type installed. If the mime type is installed by the system just
>> putting the types in the .desktop as you did is sufficient.
>>
>> >
>> > We should reach out to the translators directly for translations.
>> >
>> > I've attached a diff from your version to mine so you can see what I
>> changed.
>> > You did the bulk of the work, so I still credited you.
>> >
>> > On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 06:30:40PM -0500, José Ignacio Romero wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Put all keys in consistent order and remove/fix bogus mime types, some
>> > > assigned to programs that don't even open files. Those files could use
>> > > some TLC from translators and people better at words than me to
>> > > improve the wording and provide translated names and tooltips, I
>> > > preserved some of the french that was already in the files.
>> > > ---
>> > >  .../linux/mime/applications/bitmap2component.desktop     | 12
>> ++++++------
>> > >  resources/linux/mime/applications/eeschema.desktop       | 16
>> +++++++++-------
>> > >  resources/linux/mime/applications/gerbview.desktop       | 13
>> +++++++------
>> > >  resources/linux/mime/applications/kicad.desktop          | 14
>> ++++++++------
>> > >  resources/linux/mime/applications/pcbcalculator.desktop  | 14
>> +++++++-------
>> > >  resources/linux/mime/applications/pcbnew.desktop         | 15
>> ++++++++-------
>> > >  6 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>> > >
>> >
>
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