Bug#486738: Please are more mimetypes to the desktop file

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> gedit supports a large amount of different mimetypes, but the desktop
> file only have "MimeType=text/plain;".
> 
> Can this list be extended, so that users don't have to register
> everything?
> 
> i can propose a patch (by taking information on
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gtksourceview/trunk/gtksourceview/language-specs/)

 Could you discuss this with upstream directly?  They might have more
 pros/contras, and I'm not too confortable adding a large pile of MIME
 types if upstream didn't for some reason (gedit's usptream is
 gtksourceview's upstream :).

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Loïc Minier