[Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox

[Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox

[Aaron McDonald]

Did Alt Linux recently discontinue use of the update-mime command? From what 
I can tell, this program is used to update mailcap files.

Here's a little background as to why I'm asking the question:
After much investigation and research today I discovered that some of the 
default applications that Firefox is using are from the .mailcap file in my 
home directory. This file was last modified on Dec. 31st 2004 and it 
contains useful MIME definitions for OpenOffice.org. If I remove this file, 
Firefox no longer has these MIME definitions. The update-desktop-database 
command creates /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache which Firefox also 
uses, but this file doesn't contain any of the OpenOffice.org definitions.

So, my questions are:
Where did my .mailcap file come from?
and
What OpenOffice.org files need to be moved to /usr/share/applications/ so 
that the OpenOffice.org definitions are in mimeinfo.cache?

Thanks,
Aaron

Re: [Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox

[Yuri N. Sedunov]

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В Вск, 06/03/2005 в 20:33 -0500, Aaron McDonald пишет:
> Did Alt Linux recently discontinue use of the update-mime command? From what 
> I can tell, this program is used to update mailcap files.
> 
> Here's a little background as to why I'm asking the question:
> After much investigation and research today I discovered that some of the 
> default applications that Firefox is using are from the .mailcap file in my 
> home directory. This file was last modified on Dec. 31st 2004 and it 
> contains useful MIME definitions for OpenOffice.org. If I remove this file, 
> Firefox no longer has these MIME definitions. The update-desktop-database 
> command creates /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache which Firefox also 
> uses, but this file doesn't contain any of the OpenOffice.org definitions.
> 
> So, my questions are:
> Where did my .mailcap file come from?
> and
> What OpenOffice.org files need to be moved to /usr/share/applications/ so 
> that the OpenOffice.org definitions are in mimeinfo.cache?
> 

Standard .desktop files need to be placed in /usr/share/applications,
but now openoffice.org package doesn't provides standard .desktop files
in the standard location, this is a bug.
As a workaround You may put attached files:
openoffice-calc.desktop
openoffice-draw.desktop
openoffice-impress.desktop
openoffice-math.desktop
openoffice-writer.desktop
to /usr/share/applications and run update-desktop-database as root.

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03/07/05 07:24:54

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Re: [Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox

[Aaron McDonald]

Yuri, thanks for the advice on this. I took a look at an old Alt Linux 2.2 
installation I still have and I found that it didn't have the update-mime 
command either. It then occurred to me that maybe the .mailcap file isn't 
created or updated when a package is installed, but rather when a program is 
run. I deleted the OpenOffice.org entries from my .mailcap file and sure 
enough, after running OpenOffice.org, the MIME definitions were restored. 
So, I guess both my questions are answered.

Thanks,
Aaron

>From: "Yuri N. Sedunov" <aris@altlinux.ru>
>Reply-To: "Mailing list for ALT Linux users (in English only)" 
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>To: "Mailing list for ALT Linux users (in English only)" 
<community-en@altlinux.org>
>Subject: Re: [Comm-en] MIME definitions used by Firefox
>Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:47:28 +0300
>
>÷ ÷ÓË, 06/03/2005 × 20:33 -0500, Aaron McDonald ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> > Did Alt Linux recently discontinue use of the update-mime command? 
>From what
> > I can tell, this program is used to update mailcap files.
> >
> > Here's a little background as to why I'm asking the question:
> > After much investigation and research today I discovered that some 
of the
> > default applications that Firefox is using are from the .mailcap 
file in my
> > home directory. This file was last modified on Dec. 31st 2004 and 
it
> > contains useful MIME definitions for OpenOffice.org. If I remove 
this file,
> > Firefox no longer has these MIME definitions. The 
update-desktop-database
> > command creates /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache which 
Firefox also
> > uses, but this file doesn't contain any of the OpenOffice.org 
definitions.
> >
> > So, my questions are:
> > Where did my .mailcap file come from?
> > and
> > What OpenOffice.org files need to be moved to 
/usr/share/applications/ so
> > that the OpenOffice.org definitions are in mimeinfo.cache?
> >
>
>Standard .desktop files need to be placed in /usr/share/applications,
>but now openoffice.org package doesn't provides standard .desktop files
>in the standard location, this is a bug.
>As a workaround You may put attached files:
>openoffice-calc.desktop
>openoffice-draw.desktop
>openoffice-impress.desktop
>openoffice-math.desktop
>openoffice-writer.desktop
>to /usr/share/applications and run update-desktop-database as root.
>
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>Yuri N. Sedunov
>03/07/05 07:24:54
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