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minimalistic approach to MIME types / filetype associations

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GNUser:
Hi mocore. Right, linopen used file. When I forked it, I switched to gio. In rare situations, both methods get it right but spit out slightly different variants.

You can fork tinyopen to use file if you prefer it. The only important things for tinyopen to open a file as expected are:

1. The exact MIME type that your chosen backend (file or gio) is outputting needs to appear somewhere in /usr/local/share/tinyopen/mimeapps.list

2. MIME types in section 2 of ~/.config/tinyopen.conf need to match what your backend (file or gio) is outputting


--- Quote from: mocore on October 03, 2024, 03:26:08 AM ---any hints on how to find out [how gio works]

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Not at the moment. But it's an interesting question. I'll do some investigation.

GNUser:
It seems  gio  uses magic numbers, which is not surprising and probably the same approach that  file  uses. The real question is: Where is the database that  gio  uses to associate a magic number with a string such as text/plain?

mocore:
see also wrt libmagic ( trailofbits/polyfile )
&& https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27304.msg175790.html#msg175790

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