This package contains:
- The freedesktop.org shared MIME database spec.
- The merged GNOME and KDE databases, in the new format.
- The update-mime-database command, used to install new MIME data.
To install:
Do the usual:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
If you want to install to your home directory, you should instead do:
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/.local
$ make
$ make install
You'll need to make sure that $HOME/.local/bin is in your PATH, of course.
See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec for more
information.
Please report bugs to the bugzilla, under the shared-mime-info product.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/GettingInvolved
Useful reference links:
IANA:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
KDE's old mime-types:
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/mimetypes/