Working With MIME Types

This chapter provides a general overview of the MIME system and describes how applications detect MIME types, how to register MIME types, and how to add applications to the desktop. This chapter also describes how to configure different parts of the MIME database.

This chapter includes the following information:

• MIME Types Overview

• About the MIME Database

• Understanding MIME Type XML Files

• Modifying MIME Types

• Registering Applications for MIME Types

For the detailed information about MIME types, see the XDG shared mime info specification.