This package contains support for chemical MIME types for the KDE [1]
desktop, Gnome [2] and ROX [3] desktop too, though I have not tested that.

Chemical MIME's [4] have been proposed in 1995, though it seems they
have never been registered with IANA [5].

The mime type definitions are installed in
/usr/share/mimelnk/chemical
in the .desktop format. This format is developed by the Freedesktop
project [6], and specified on that site [7].

To make the chemical MIME types known with Gnome* [2] and presumably ROX [3],
an XML-file which follows the freedesktop.org Shared MIME-info Database
specification [8], has to be installed into the <shared-mime-info-path>/packages.
To update the Shared MIME-info Database run update-mime-database (for additional 
information see 'man update-mime-database').

To associate the chemical MIME types with a special application, a
<program>.desktop file has to be installed into /usr/share/applnk/<somedir>/
for KDE desktop [1].

For Gnome desktop [2] a <program.applications> file has
to be installed into /usr/share/application-registry/ and additional install
<program>.mime and <program>.keys file into /usr/share/(<gnomedir>)/)mime-info.

These would normally be installed by the program itself,
e.g. JChemPaint [9] or Jmol [10].

1. http://www.kde.org/
2. http://www.gnome.org/
3. http://rox.sourceforge.net/
4. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/
5. http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
6. http://www.freedesktop.org/
7. http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec
8. http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec
9. http://jchempaint.sourceforge.net/
10. http://jmol.sourceforge.net/


* This is possibly not necessary. For Debian GNU/Linux (Sid) it is.
