MIME Types

GTKtalog User's Guide - Mon Sep 24 00:40:59 CEST 2001
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# Chapter 5. MIME Types

GTKtalog uses MIME types to store the file types. So does Gnome, Kde ... The MIME type of a file is determined by the extension or by the content (best).

A MIME type is a string such as "application/zip" for (.zip files) or "image/jpeg" for (.jpg files)

In four places within GTKtalog, you are asked to type a MIME type (all in the preferences):

- Adding/Editing a plugin

- Adding/Editing a VFS

- MIME types to skip during scan

- MIME types icons

If you don't know the Mime string but you know the extension, use the button "Guess from an extension". Give an extension, it will return the corresponding Mime type .... cool !

If there is no known MIME type for your extension, you'll have to add it in the Gnome control center : Document Handlers/File types and programs. See the Gnome Control Center documentation for more information.

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