howto alias a mimetype

[David Faure]

On Thursday 28 October 2004 18:34, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:19:30PM +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Thursday 28 October 2004 13:35 schrieb Koos Vriezen:
> > 
> > > Yes or no would be sufficient :-) and only if you know it, trial and
> > > error can I do myself but I wouldn't trust it then.
> > Do the same as we did with application/xml - add a desktop file with
> > X-Is-Also=application/java and then use KService instead of string
> > compare. You don't need to change the Mimetype line then.
> 
> Sounds promising, but I can't find what you mean.
>  grep -r 'application/xml' $KDEDIR/share/
Update kdelibs first :)

>  grep -ir x-is-also $KDEDIR/share/
> come with nothing :-(. More clues? ie where/when was it added? 
> 
> OT, anyone that has a tip how to use google with words like x-is-also?

It's X-KDE-IsAlso, and here's an example:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Comment=XML Document
Icon=html
Type=MimeType
MimeType=application/xml
# This mimetype is an alias for text/xml.
X-KDE-IsAlso=text/xml

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