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<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>
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<title>Associate MIME types</title>
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<title>Launch your application</title>
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<p>Associate files with your application, using MIME types.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<example>
<listing>
<title><file>myapplication.desktop</file></title>
<code>[Desktop Entry]
Name=My Application
Exec=myapplication
Type=Application
MimeType=image/png</code>
</listing>
</example>
<p>For this hypothetical application, <code>image/png</code> is listed as the
supported MIME type.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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