[gcmd-dev] Re: YAFT Yet another freedesktop thread...

[Michael]

There's also ~/.local/share/mime which contains XML files.
It's only used by google earth here. The related Debian update tool says it's 
the X Desktop specification which should not mean much more than Gnome or KDE 
according to <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops>

The specs are about here:
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-0.13.html#s2_layout>
and more generally resources at
<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec>

Responsible for the shared-mime-info package seems to be Thomas Leonhard
(tal from cs.soton.ak.uk)

I think the actual userspace files and folders (in .local) are created when you 
first launch a compliant desktop session. At least I couldn't find them in any 
package yet.