[Thunar-dev] application registration

[Benedikt Meurer]

Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>>>I wonder how I can add an application as mime handler of an existing mime
>>>type?
>>>
>>>I tried putting a desktop file into '/usr/share/applications', with a
>>>"MimeType" key. Doesn't seem to be picked up by thunar, though.
>>
>>Did you run update-desktop-database?
> 
> oops, no. 
> 
> I guess "update-mime-database" is something else...

Yes, that's used to update the mime database in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/mime
after installing new mime types.

> Thanks,
>   Danny

Benedikt