[Slackbuilds-users] Admins - Question about Brave browser

[Logan Rathbone]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 05:54:56PM EDT, B. Watson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, Andrew Payne wrote:
> > This slackbuild will adjust MIME settings for Brave. If you
> > wish to retain your current MIME settings, you can remove:
> > 
> > if [ -x /usr/bin/update-mime-database ]; then
> >    /usr/bin/update-mime-database usr/share/mime >/dev/null 2>&1
> > fi
> > 
> > from the doinst.sh file before building.
> > 
> > ++
> > 
> > OR pull the MIME lines out of doinst.sh altogether.
> 
> You should remove the update-mime-database lines from the doinst.sh,
> since they don't do anything anyway, other than waste a bit of time.
> update-mime-database doesn't do what you thought it did...
[snip]
> Basically, the mime database in /usr/share/mime defines MIME types
> like image/png or text/plain. It doesn't have anything to do with user
> preferences (your doinst.sh won't make Brave the default browser)...
[snip]

In case anyone is perusing this list and wondering what *does* set user
preferences for app associations for MIME types pursuant to the XDG
standards, this section of an article on the Arch Wiki provides a good
summary:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_MIME_Applications#mimeapps.list

tldr: it's file called mimeapps.list, looked for in various directories
in a hierarchical fashion.