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Krita is doing its own thing (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Patrick, who has the Krita logo overlaid on him, and Man Ray have a back and forward pointing out that desktop files can have multiple file types associated with a programme by setting the mime type field. It ends with Man Ray insisting on Krita making one desktop file, but instead shows a list of desktop files with the format org.kde.krita.format.desktop.
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[–] 15 points 5 months ago

XDG Desktop files are a mostly standardized way to integrate individual programs into the desktop. For example, a desktop file in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications can add programs to the application launcher, both desktop launcher menus and separate apps like dmenu-run; or they can be used to start applications when the desktop session starts by placing them in ~/.config/autostart.

Desktop files can also set properties related to an application. In this particular case, the MimeType field tells the desktop session what MIME types should be associated with the application. For example, my desktop file for Blender associates the application/x-blender MIME type with it, which causes Blender to show up in the Open with... dialog.

The MimeType field is a semicolon-separated list. One desktop file can define multiple associated MIME types for the same application. Krita instead creates a separate file for each association.

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