On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:24:22PM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > GNOME Software can do that, AFAIK - but it will not do that for > non-GUI applications, which is a design decision by GNOME. > So, to get support for this beyond appstreamcli, someone would need to > write a small tool for it. Fortunately, that's really easy and also > very simple to integrate (as long as linking against the AppStream > library or using the GIR is not an issue).
If the data is on the local machine somewhere, there can also be an apt-xapian-index plugin that adds mimetype information to the index. Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>