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  <info>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2014-01-28" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>David King</name>

      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2014</years>

    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="cc-by-sa-3-0.xml"/>

  </info>

  <title>Associate MIME types</title>

  <links type="series" style="floatend">

    <title>Launch your application</title>

  </links>

  
Associate files with your application, using MIME types.

  
If your application opens files of a certain type, such as PNG images, you

  can add an association with the MIME type of the file. This is added to the

  desktop file.

  <example>

    <listing>

      <title><file>myapplication.desktop</file></title>

[Desktop Entry]

Name=My Application

Exec=myapplication

Type=Application

MimeType=image/png

    </listing>

  </example>

  
For this hypothetical application, image/png is listed as the

  supported MIME type.

  
Custom MIME types can be added to the system-wide MIME database, but this

  is outside the scope of this guide. The

  <link href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/">Shared

  MIME-Info Database</link> specification for more details.

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