Shared MIME Info

The shared-mime-info package contains:

• The core database of common MIME types, their file extensions and icon names.
• The update-mime-database command, used to extend the DB and install a new MIME data.
• The freedesktop.org shared MIME database spec.

It is used by GLib, GNOME, KDE, XFCE and many others.

For more information about the database see the Shared MIME Info Specification here.

Installation

To install do:

$ meson _build -Dprefix=/usr
$ ninja -v -C _build install

It requires the glib development package to be installed as well as gettext and itstool. This database is translated at Transifex.

Please report bugs here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/issues

Getting involved in freedesktop.org projects guide: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/GettingInvolved/

Useful reference links

IANA: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/

KDE's old mime-types: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/mimetypes/

UNIX file tool and libmagic https://github.com/file/file