[3dprinter-general] Bug#850698: printrun: registration for generic MIME types

[Miro Hrončok]

On 10.1.2017 16:08, Rock Storm wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 14:16 +0100, christian mock wrote:
>> the package lists "text/plain" and "application/octet-stream" as MIME
>> types for pronterface (in addition to "application/sla", which is
>> fine).
>>
>> This means that depending on other packages installed etc,
>> applications such as firefox offer pronterface as the first option to
>> open text files or generic binary files.
>>
>> Please remove those generic MIME types and just keep the ones that
>> are
>> really relevant, such as "application/sla".
>
> Hi Crhistian, thanks for the report.
>
> Miro, I believe you introduced the MimeType line on pronterface.desktop
> upstream [1]. Does this happen on Fedora too? Will it make any sense to
> forward such change upstream?

Yes. And the real fix would be to introduce a real mime type for ascii 
and binary STLs as well as GCODEs in [2]. I was planning to do it long 
time ago.

[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec/

>
> Regards,
>
> Rock Storm
> 3D-Printer Packaging Team
>
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> [1] https://github.com/kliment/Printrun/commit/a508196694adc98b522ec08a
> a47f30c27bdfee07
>

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