The GIMP team have confirmed that image/x-xcf is the correct mime. https://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer-list%40gnome.org/msg09755.html
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:24 PM Joel Hockey <joelhoc...@chromium.org> wrote: > Package: media-types > Version: ? > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Would it be possible to change the xcf file association in > /etc/mime.types from application/x-xcf to image/x-xcf? > > GIMP uses the xcf file extension by default, and registers to handle > mime type image/x-xcf in its gimp.desktop file. > > > https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/blob/512fc2469422bb651515fb56a250439a1cc5c4ad/configure.ac#L1451 > > XDG shared-mime-info also uses image/x-xcf to associate *.xcf files. > > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/blob/47ca1dc530d356336ffe1b7a45dc5dc8f0e528ca/data/freedesktop.org.xml.in#L5568 > > I'm not sure the history of why these 2 are not in sync, so I'm not sure > if this would cause any issues to change it in media-types. I have > emailed gimp-developer-l...@gnome.org to ask their opinion about this > requested change. I will follow up when I hear from them. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 10.7 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 5.4.128-15728-g686e2baf4c9b (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >
