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Registering multiple mime types
by Arun on Wednesday 12/May/2004, @20:54

If I am writing a KFile plugin for say Java .class files, there are multiple mime types in use for them - application/java, application/java-byte-code, application/java-vm, application/x-java-class, application/x-java-byte-code - to name a few.

How do I register all of them as associated with the same plugin class? Is it by multiple calls to addMimeTypeInfo?

How about the .desktop file? Do I add multiple MimeType entries there?

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Re: Registering multiple mime types
by Arun on Sunday 16/May/2004, @17:43

I figured out the answers to the two questions myself.

In the .desktop, all the mime types need to be in the same MimeType entry like this:
MimeType=application/java;application/java-byte-code;application/java-vm;application/x-java;application/x-java-class;application/x-java-byte-code
I believe regular expressions are also allowed.

In the plugin class, multiple calls should be made to addMimeTypeInfo for each type and all the groups, items need to be added to each KFileMimeTypeInfo.

I have a small KFile plugin for .class files at http://arun.homeip.net/kdev/kfile_class_src.zip if anyone is interested.

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