Jerome Leclanche : wine.desktop: Remove the nonexistent application/ x-win-lnk MIME type.

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sat May 7 15:52:00 CDT 2011


A .desktop entry pointing to a nonexistant mime type is harmless, so I'd
revert the change.

Indeed only a year ago Wine's .desktop entry pointed to MANY
non-existant mime types.

-Scott Ritchie

On 05/07/2011 05:27 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> Odd, I'm on KDE but my shortcuts are all application/x-ms-shortcut (Natty).
> 
> I had a quick search through the kde sources and it seems KDE might be
> forcing x-win-lnk for some windows-specific behaviour. At least it's
> there in a bunch of tests, but no app seems to actually use it.
> 
> I'll file a bug with KDE and see what else references it. Should the
> commit be reverted or is it a case of fix-it-upstream?
> 
> 
> J. Leclanche
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/5/7 Ozan Türkyılmaz <ozan.turkyilmaz at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, 7 May 2011, Francois Gouget wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this patch is correct: on my Debian Testing machine
>>> application/x-win-lnk is defined in /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml which
>>> comes from the kdelibs5-data. I also found a reference to this package in
>>> the kdebase-runtime Fedora 11 runtime.
>>>
>>
>> I found it on /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml on Slackware 13.37 as well.
>> It's included in kdelibs package.
>>
>> --
>> Ozan, BSc, BEng
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 




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