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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 00:21 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> is anybody familiar with the spec i mention below!?
> i asked on the xdg list but nobody responded yet.. perhaps someone
> here is using some low hanging fruit out of this spec's implementation
> already in some project?

Try looking in /usr/share/mime. You are using it every day  :-)

At the very least Gnome uses it and I am pretty sure that the GAppInfo
API in GIO will hook into it by default. I *think* KDE uses it as well,
but I have not fact checked that.

Cheers,
Mikkel

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 22:14
> Subject: unified system
> To: xdg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> hello list
> i just came across this spec and i loved it:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/ar01s02.html
> 
> can anyone recommend an interesting discussion thread on this?
> 
> 
> 
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