--- a/dwt/program/Program.d	Sat Mar 08 22:59:15 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwt/program/Program.d	Sat Mar 08 23:00:05 2008 +0100
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 import tango.core.Exception;
 import tango.core.Array;
 import tango.text.convert.Format;
+import tango.io.FileConduit;
+import tango.text.stream.LineIterator;
 
 version( build ){
     pragma(link, "gnomeui-2" );
@@ -583,6 +585,34 @@
     return null;
 }
 
+/++
+ + DWT Extension
+ + This is a temporary workaround until SWT will get the real implementation.
+ +/
+static char[][][ char[] ] gnome24_getMimeInfo() {
+    scope file = new FileConduit ("/usr/share/mime/globs");
+    scope it = new LineIterator!(char)(file);
+    // process file one line at a time
+    char[][][ char[] ] mimeInfo;
+    foreach (line; it ){
+        int colon = line.indexOf(':');
+        if( colon is line.length ){
+            continue;
+        }
+        if( line.length < colon+3 || line[colon+1 .. colon+3 ] != "*." ){
+            continue;
+        }
+        char[] mimeType = line[0..colon].dup;
+        char[] ext      = line[colon+3 .. $].dup;
+        if( auto exts = mimeType in mimeInfo ){
+            mimeInfo[ mimeType ] = *exts ~ ext;
+        }
+        else{
+            mimeInfo[ mimeType ] = [ ext ];
+        }
+    }
+    return mimeInfo;
+}
 /**
  * GNOME - Get mime types
  *
@@ -727,12 +757,12 @@
     int desktop = getDesktop(display);
     char[][][ char[] ] mimeInfo = null;
     switch (desktop) {
-        case DESKTOP_GNOME_24: break;
+        case DESKTOP_GNOME_24: mimeInfo = gnome24_getMimeInfo(); break;
         case DESKTOP_GNOME: mimeInfo = gnome_getMimeInfo(); break;
         //case DESKTOP_CDE: mimeInfo = cde_getDataTypeInfo(); break;
         default:
     }
-    if (mimeInfo is null) return new char[][0];
+    if (mimeInfo is null) return null;
 
     /* Create a unique set of the file extensions. */
     char[][] extensions;