gtk-recordmydesktop would save an Ogg Theora video file the KDE file
browser would refuse to open. No video player claimed to understand
such file. I tracked down the cause being <tt>file --mime-type</tt>
-returning the application/ogg mime type, which no video player I had
+returning the application/ogg MIME type, which no video player I had
installed listed as a MIME type they would understand. I asked for
<a href="http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=382">file to change its
behavour</a> and use the MIME type video/ogg instead. I also asked
<p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types.
There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from
<tt>file --mime-type</tt> mentioned above, and the content of the
-shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/). The file mime
-type is mapped to programs supporting the mime type, and this
+shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/). The file MIME
+type is mapped to programs supporting the MIME type, and this
information is collected from
<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec/">the
desktop files</a> available in /usr/share/applications/. If there is
activated when asking to open a given file. If there are more, one
can normally select which one to use by right-clicking on the file and
selecting the wanted one using 'Open with' or similar. In general
-this work well. But it depend on each program picking a good mime
+this work well. But it depend on each program picking a good MIME
type (preferably
<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml">a
-MIME type registered with IANA</a>), file and/or the shared mime
+MIME type registered with IANA</a>), file and/or the shared MIME
registry recognizing the file and the desktop file to list the MIME
type in its list of supported MIME types.</p>