Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs The current KDE file associations list VCards as "text/x-vcard" with the filename pattern *.vcf or *.vct. However, the IANA has assigned VCards the MIME content type "text/directory", as per RFC 2425. Since "text/directory" is listed in the freedesktop.org MIME database, which will be used by KDE 4, perhaps this bug should be marked as RESOLVED/FIXED (?) but maybe the developers want to fix it sooner. Related bugs: Bug 49801 References: 1. <http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/> 2. <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2425.txt> 3. <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fshared_2dmime_2dinfo>
David, any preference?
We can't change this in 3.5.x, it would break e.g. kaddressbook from kdepim-3.5.0 which expects text/x-vcard. But I'll make the change in kdelibs-trunk already, one less mimetype to look into when we switch to f.d.o shared mime...
SVN commit 488412 by dfaure: The real mimetype for .vcf files is text/directory, as per the IANA. Thanks to Tristan Miller for letting us know. BUG: 118287 A directory.desktop x-vcard.desktop#488256 [TRAILING SPACE] M +2 -1 x-vcard.desktop --- trunk/KDE/kdelibs/mimetypes/text/x-vcard.desktop #488411:488412 @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ Icon=vcard Type=MimeType MimeType=text/x-vcard -Patterns=*.vct;*.vcf;*.VCT;*.VCF +# This mimetype is just for compatibility with KDE-3.x; the real name is text/directory +X-KDE-IsAlso=text/directory [Property::X-KDE-text] Type=bool