[Gambas-user] Rev 5129+ gb.desktop

[Bruce]

On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 01:58 +0100, RICHARD WALKER wrote:
> Sorry Bruce, it appeared during a long series of searches for
> mimeapps.list and mimeinfo.cache information. I tried to retrace my
> footsteps and here is one link which I definitely visited (though it
> doesn't look too familiar today) which says the same thing...
> http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mimetypes-registering.html.en
> 
> The salient point is in para 2:
> [update_desktop_database]...will create a mimeinfo.cache file in the
> applications subdirectory for each directory in
> $XDG_DATA_HOME:$XDG_DATA_DIRS.
> 
> Perhaps a little more persuasive is the relevant man page:
> 
> http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/update-desktop-database/
> 
> Richard

Some interesting (?) stuff there.  Bit busy, bbl
Bruce