XDG MIME type for .desktop file?

akamikeym · 09-18-2012, 06:23 AM

Hi, I'm trying to find out if there's a mime type for .desktop files themselves? I'm trying to create a file dialogue for selecting a .desktop file and I'm failing to find info on this. Thanks for your help.

kabamaru · 09-18-2012, 09:53 AM

Well,

Code:

xdg-mime query filetype /usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop

returns

Code:

text/plain; charset=us-ascii

That said, I did a

Code:

grep -R '*.desktop' /usr/share/mime/*

Output:

Code:

/usr/share/mime/application/x-desktop.xml:  <glob pattern="*.desktop"/>
/usr/share/mime/globs:application/x-desktop:*.desktop
/usr/share/mime/globs2:50:application/x-desktop:*.desktop
/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml:    <glob pattern="*.desktop"/>

Don't know if that helps.

akamikeym · 09-19-2012, 09:28 AM

That application/x-desktop looks promising. I've been rewriting my code to use an optional pattern i.e. *.desktop as well as mime types.