Virtual MimeTypes support patch

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Oct 23 10:55:02 BST 2006


Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>Hi, this patch adds virtual mimetypes support for KDE.
>
>Virtual mimetypes basically add the possibility of having plugins that
> add supported mimetypes to those the application supports.
>
>We need it for okular behaving properly, that is, not advertising it has
> pdf support when the pdf plugin was not compiled.

Patch makes sense to me.

The external appearance is simple enough (the .desktop files). I can't 
comment on the internals of Sycoca, though.

One other thing: are we still going to move to the shared MIME-Type 
database?

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