Bug#629105: hydrogen: Purports to handle SVG files

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

Package: hydrogen
Version: 0.9.5-2
Severity: normal

In the file manager Thunar, Hydrogen is presented as a handler for SVG files.
Is this caused by the line

MimeType=text/xml;

in /usr/share/applications/hydrogen.desktop ?

Perhaps SVG is a subset of XML? So, in claiming to handle XML, Hydrogen is
presented as a handler for SVG files indirectly?

Anyway, Hydrogen does nothing useful when opening an SVG file, of course.

Therefore I ask, is it sensible that Hydrogen should register itself as
a handler for general XML files? Wouldn't it be better to define a new MIME
type, e.g. audio/x-hydrogen-pattern and audio/x-hydrogen-song, determined
by the appropriate suffixes for the two different Hydrogen file types
*.h2song and *.h2pattern? Or both file suffixes could be used for a single
MIME type audio/x-hydrogen.

I'm no expert on MIME types, though.

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hydrogen depends on:
ii  libarchive1             2.8.4-1          Single library to read/write tar, 
ii  libasound2              1.0.23-4         shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                   2.13-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-10       GCC support library
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libja 1.9.7~dfsg-1     JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  liblrdf0                0.4.0-5          library to manipulate RDF files de
ii  libportaudio2           19+svn20110326-1 Portable audio I/O - shared librar
ii  libportmidi0            1:184-2          library for real-time MIDI input/o
ii  libqt4-network          4:4.7.3-1        Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-xml              4:4.7.3-1        Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.7.3-1        Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.7.3-1        Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libsndfile1             1.0.24-1         Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-10         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages hydrogen recommends:
pn  hydrogen-drumkits             <none>     (no description available)
pn  rubberband-cli                <none>     (no description available)

hydrogen suggests no packages.

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