Bug 38267

Summary: shared-mime-info should provide the URL defining the media type
Product: shared-mime-info Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: freedesktop.org.xmlAssignee: Shared Mime Info group <shared_mime_info>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
URL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267167
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Bug Depends on: 673    
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2011-06-13 13:35:21 UTC 
For example, it should be able to identify <URL: rfc:3778 > as the defining document for media type "application/pdf".  That way, when the operator does not have a handler installed and she is unable to find one, she can have a handler created from the specification.

Registered media types can be found at IANA.org but I am not sure they provide a query API.  The definition for unregistered (extension) media types should be provided by the person who adds the type (not all media types used by the operating system can be registered because it would not make any sense to transmit some over a network).

A request from KDE Bug 267167.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-06-14 02:28:51 UTC 
Unless a patch (to both the spec and the database) is forthcoming, this isn't going to happen.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-02-12 17:21:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Unless a patch (to both the spec and the database) is forthcoming, this
> isn't going to happen.

Looks like it's not going to happen then.

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