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<p>Okay, so for now not looking into pushing them upstream (too bad we gave up on "turning every user into a developer" ;) )</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>I'm unsure about mimetypes for special files by name, that seems too specialized. Mimetypes are for *types* of files, not for each specific file ;)<br />
I mean, Messages.sh is a shell script, that's its type. Its specific purpose is something else, of course, but still you would use a viewer or editor for shell scripts to open it (which is the main reason for mimetypes: app associations).</p></blockquote>
<p>But isn't Messages.sh a sub-type to shell-script, as it needs to match some further requirements, as defined by scripty expectations? And while there might be no specific viewer/editor/etc as handler assigned, it still a type of its own as handled by humans (outside of scripty server). So IMHO it is helpful to also have these files displayed annotated as such in filemanagers/dialogs, ideally both by icon and type tooltip. With such annotated presentation to humans for me being another raison d’être for mimetypes :)<br />
So IMHO "Messages,sh" & Co match things already in shared-mime-info like "AUTHORS", "COPYING", "CREDITS", "LICENSE", where there also usually is no specific handler, still it is helpful when browsing files to have these special files annotated.<br />
But given <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/p/ltoscano/" style="
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