#5821: [FileTypes] some images open in WebPositive ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: diver | Owner: axeld Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1/alpha2 Component: Kits/Application Kit | Version: R1/Development Keywords: | Blockedby: Platform: All | Blocking: ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Comment(by stippi): Ok we agree it's a configuration issue. What I don't agree with is that it's always better to fall back to the preferred application of the super type, even if a supporting application exists that would handle the specific type better than the preferred application of the super type. Consider the example of image/svg+xml. The user has conveniently configured ShowImage for image/* even though there may actually be image types, such as image/svg+xml, which ShowImage doesn't even handle at all. So I believe the misconfiguration is at the application level, when applications claim to support a specific type, even though they don't have a good reason for this at all. Indeed WebPositive directly supports image/png, but there is no good reason to inject this information into the MIME type database resolving system, since WebPositive is a web browser, not an image viewer. To address your specific proposal for a solution, I don't believe it would solve the issue. That there is no preferred type configured for the sub- type should be the common case, so how would that be different to what I implemented? And there being a misconfiguration with the preferred app missing should be the minority of cases, which is again addressed by my change. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5821#comment:5> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.