Linux: update xdg-utils to the latest git version and include a one-line fix in xdg-mime.

scripts/xdg-mime.in

 #!/bin/sh
 #---------------------------------------------
 #   xdg-mime
 #
 #   Utility script to manipulate MIME related information
 #   on XDG compliant systems.
 #
 #   Refer to the usage() function below for usage.
 #
 #   Copyright 2009-2010, Fathi Boudra <fabo@freedesktop.org>
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 make_default_generic()
 {
     # $1 is vendor-name.desktop
     # $2 is mime/type
     # Add $2=$1 to XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list
     xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
     [ -n "$xdg_user_dir" ] || xdg_user_dir="$HOME/.local/share"
     default_file="$xdg_user_dir/applications/mimeapps.list"
     DEBUG 2 "make_default_generic $1 $2"
     DEBUG 1 "Updating $default_file"
+    [ -f $default_file ] || touch $default_file

[Lei Zhang, 2011/05/04 23:11:55]

$default_file should be in double quotes in case there's spaces in the path.

[Mike Mammarella, 2011/05/04 23:19:44]

Good catch. I've updated the line I copied this from and others as well.

     awk -v mimetype="$2" -v application="$1" '
     BEGIN {
         prefix=mimetype "="
         indefault=0
         added=0
         blanks=0
         found=0
     }
     {
         suppress=0
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                 rm -f $kde_dir/$x.desktop
             fi
         done
         ;;
 esac
 
 update_mime_database $xdg_base_dir
 
 exit_success