[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #5821: [FileTypes] some images open in WebPositive
- From: "stippi" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:04:43 -0000
#5821: [FileTypes] some images open in WebPositive
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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:
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Comment(by stippi):
The core problem that you describe only results from applications
declaring the supported types too verbosely, and I don't yet know if that
is a theoretical problem, or a problem that exists, but could be fixed by
removing needlessly declared supported types from some apps. There are
certainly some that declare too many. You are absolutely right that
ShowImage does not know which image/* type it supports. The same is true
for ArtPaint, WonderBrush and a dosen other apps that load images via the
Translation Kit. If all these apps declare to support image/* and then
''only'' their native image type (image/x-wonderbrush, image/x-artpaint or
whatever) and no other types needlessly, then the problem you describe
doesn't actually exist in practice, since you can configure ShowImage as
the preferred app for image/* and it will always be chosen except for
image/x-wonderbrush and image/x-artpaint.
Similarily with Tracker add-ons, I don't know what part of your argument
is a real problem versus a theoretical problem, since I am pretty sure
that text/x-email is associated with Mail, so Mark-As-Read should not
randomly open if you double click a Mail. If it does, then it's a bug.
To sum up, the problem that you describe can be fixed once, by removing
needlessly declared support for specific types (in packages and our own
apps). MediaPlayer is a good example, it should only declare audio/* and
video/*, I don't even know why it declares so many specific types as
supported. I think this still stems from a time when the MIME database was
not properly setup on a fresh image.
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