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      id="dev-launching-mime">

  <info>
    <revision version="0.1" date="2014-01-28" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

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  </info>

  <title>Associate MIME types</title>

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    <title>Launch your application</title>
  </links>

  <p>Associate files with your application, using MIME types.</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>

  <example>
    <listing>
      <title><file>myapplication.desktop</file></title>
<code>[Desktop Entry]
Name=My Application
Exec=myapplication
Type=Application
MimeType=image/png</code>
    </listing>
  </example>

  <p>For this hypothetical application, <code>image/png</code> is listed as the
  supported MIME type.</p>

  <p>Custom MIME types can be added to the system-wide MIME database, but this
  is outside the scope of this guide. The
  <link href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/latest/">Shared
  MIME-Info Database</link> specification for more details.</p>

</page>
