mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Marc Lalaude-Labayle <address@hidden>]

What's great with such opensource softwares and such users' community
(especially this texmacs one) is the fact when you say "i encounter this
problem", then anyone (able or not to fix the problem) tries to help.

Hope you can manage to fix this Raju (in the case it's distro specific).
Note that i can work without any problem wihout this mime type
recognized


Regards

Marc




Le vendredi 21 novembre 2008 à 10:15 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:12:50PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > Andrea Gamba wrote:
> 
> >> I think that it should be the job of the .deb install script to add
> >> correctly all the mime types and icons in the right places.
> 
> > I do not know much about mime types. I will try to learn about them
> > this weekend and see what I can do.
> 
> If I remember well, there are actually two databases of MIME types and
> actions/icons, one used by "old-style" programs (like mutt) and one
> used by "new style" programs (gnome, future versions of KDE, ...); see
> the Debian packages mime-support and shared-mime-info.
> 
> 
> The Debian-specific documentation about support for MIME types is:
> 
>  http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/
>  man update-mime
>  man dh_installmime
> 
> These are the mechanisms in Debian to automate the installing of the
> MIME types in the right (Debian-specific) place and regenerating files
> that need regenerating. As to writing these files itself, it is not
> Debian-specific, but cross-distribution, I believe. See
> 
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-theme-spec
> 
> for the "new" database (shared-mime-info) and
> 
>  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1524.txt
>  (and in lesser degree
>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1523.txt
>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1522.txt)
> 
> for the "old" database.
>