David King
davidk@gnome.org 2014

# Associate MIME types

# Launch your application

Associate files with your application, using MIME types.

If your application opens files of a certain type, such as PNG images, you can add an association with the MIME type of the file. This is added to the desktop file.

# myapplication.desktop

[Desktop Entry] Name=My Application Exec=myapplication Type=Application MimeType=image/png

For this hypothetical application, `image/png` is listed as the supported MIME type.

Custom MIME types can be added to the system-wide MIME database, but this is outside the scope of this guide. See the Shared MIME-Info Database specification for more details.