From: Petter Reinholdtsen
The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from file --mime-type 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 diff --git a/blog/archive/2016/06/06.rss b/blog/archive/2016/06/06.rss index 93fbcee37c..e5c4077b8f 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2016/06/06.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2016/06/06.rss @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.</p> <p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +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 diff --git a/blog/archive/2016/06/index.html b/blog/archive/2016/06/index.html index 0a84b746dd..e6377b0930 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2016/06/index.html +++ b/blog/archive/2016/06/index.html @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.
The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from file --mime-type 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 diff --git a/blog/data/2016-06-05-open-your-files.txt b/blog/data/2016-06-05-open-your-files.txt index 73d76270d7..66e7787983 100644 --- a/blog/data/2016-06-05-open-your-files.txt +++ b/blog/data/2016-06-05-open-your-files.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ while back I discovered that the screencast recorder 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 file --mime-type -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 file to change its behavour and use the MIME type video/ogg instead. I also asked @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.
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 file --mime-type 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 the desktop files available in /usr/share/applications/. If there is @@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ one desktop file claiming support for the MIME type of the file, it 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 -MIME type registered with IANA), file and/or the shared mime +MIME type registered with IANA), 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.
diff --git a/blog/index.html b/blog/index.html index 56c5d9e8b3..4638eb25ac 100644 --- a/blog/index.html +++ b/blog/index.html @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from file --mime-type 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 diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index d571a362c2..325f4dc2ab 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.</p> <p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +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 diff --git a/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss b/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss index 7258169036..1976af77eb 100644 --- a/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss +++ b/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.</p> <p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +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 diff --git a/blog/tags/debian/index.html b/blog/tags/debian/index.html index 3fd2ecddc5..3616f61156 100644 --- a/blog/tags/debian/index.html +++ b/blog/tags/debian/index.html @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.
The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from file --mime-type 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 diff --git a/blog/tags/english/english.rss b/blog/tags/english/english.rss index 6fa64f40da..8851bf89e7 100644 --- a/blog/tags/english/english.rss +++ b/blog/tags/english/english.rss @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.</p> <p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +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 diff --git a/blog/tags/english/index.html b/blog/tags/english/index.html index df4bd714fa..bf8d37c53b 100644 --- a/blog/tags/english/index.html +++ b/blog/tags/english/index.html @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.
The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types. -There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from +There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from file --mime-type 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