Hi Christian, :-) On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:36, Christian Lohmaier <[email protected]> wrote: > for all distros that support the > freedesktop specifications/recommendations. > Nowadays more or less every distro follows them/supports them, so that > one should be usable on any distro. But at the time it was added to > OOo, many distros did use their own magic to have their > desktop-environments be aware of installed/removed applications and > had their own way of registering mimetypes. > > The freedesktop.org specifications/proposal did standardize this to > some well known paths and utilities to update that info. > > Affected are the icon-theme specification, the mime-types one and the > one for the desktop files (application launcher definitions)
Thanks for that info. I've included a note about this in the revised readme I've drafted. David Nelson _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
