[Rd] shared-mime-info (PR#8278)

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Full_Name: Vaidotas Zemlys
Version: 2.1.1
OS: Ubuntu 05.10
Submission from: (NULL) (213.197.173.50)


Hi,

This is really a feature request, not a bug. I wrote the mail to R-devel, 
but nobody answered it. 

I use Gnome on my computer and sometimes I use its default text editor
gedit. It uses gtksourceview library for syntax highlighting. I
decided that it would be nice if gedit supported R syntax. So I
created apropriate .lang file:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157370

Gedit picks apropriate lang file according to file mimetype, so I
created apropriate mime type for files with extension .R. I filed a bug
report at freedesktop.org:
https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1782

There Christophe Fergeau suggested that maybe R could take care of
installing this mime type by itself. Is it possible? As I understand it would
only concern Linux installations and R should cooperate with shared-mime-info
package which is responsible for all mime type definitions.

Vaidotas Zemlys