Re: [art] The XDG mimetype problem

worley@ariadne.com Sat, 25 March 2023 01:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] The XDG mimetype problem
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"Soni L." <fakedme+art@gmail.com> writes:
> So uh, these are some of the XDG specs for handling mime types:
>
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-latest.html
>
> The problem is... how do you shove an application/ld+json; 
> profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" into these?

As you can see, there's a section of that web page titled
"Adding/removing associations" but the documentation is terrible.  I
suspect you have to contact the communities that work with
freedesktop.org to find out how to do this.

> Is ActivityPub support doomed on Linux?

I doubt anyone here knows what is going on there.  Are there ActivityPub
communities you can contact?

Dale