After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 131596 - GIMP could make use of shared-mime-info-spec
GIMP could make use of shared-mime-info-spec
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
1.x
Other All
: Low enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: 101604 140982
 
 
Reported: 2004-01-15 20:03 UTC by Sven Neumann
Modified: 2005-01-01 21:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sven Neumann 2004-01-15 20:03:16 UTC 
There's a spec on Free Desktop that could be interesting for The GIMP.
Since it involves file plug-ins it should be considered when designing a
new PDB API for file plug-ins:

 http://freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec
Comment 1 Dave Neary 2004-01-21 13:42:52 UTC 
Putting on 2.2 milestone (perhaps optimistically).

Cheers,
Dave.
Comment 2 Dave Neary 2004-01-21 13:46:20 UTC 
Excuse me, resolved the wrong bug by accident.
Comment 3 Sven Neumann 2004-05-15 12:54:39 UTC 
GIMP does now have support for mime types w/o using any code from the
shared-mime-info package. I did use the strings from the shared-mime-info
package though.

The code provided as xdgmime doesn't seem to provide any functionality that
could be useful for The GIMP. This could change with a redesigned file plug-in
API but I don't see this happening for gimp-2.2. Moving to the future milestone
instead.
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2004-11-15 10:35:22 UTC 
I am closing this report because it doesn't make sense to keep a report open for
something that might perhaps be useful one day. MIME type handling as currently
implemented seems to work reasonably well.

http://developer.gimp.org/standards.html has a link to the spec to remind us
that it could be useful.