[haiku-development] Re: Defining more standard attributes
- From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:39:17 +0100
-- Axel Dörfler, on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:03:11 +0100:
> 1) should we keep the existing Audio:* attributes around, or should
> we
> replace them where appropriate?
> 2) should we use the MIME super type name (like Audio:) as a prefix,
> and META: for everything that is not media related? Or should we have
> a
> Media: prefix for everything that is media related, and covers both,
> audio and video?
2) Replace 'em, I'd say.
In general, there are a few BeOS legacies that IMO should be corrected
rather sooner than later. This could possibly break a few old BeOS apps
and scripts, but binary compatibilty is way less important now that 5
years ago.
By waiting any longer, even more apps will break as more new
applications arrive.
So, MEDIA:* for audio/video, META:* for use with unspecific files.
Q: Would "rating" be META or MEDIA? It makes sense for images/*,
audio/*, video/*, text/*. So these would be all "media". But maybe you
want to rate application/x.vnd.Be-elfexecutable, i.e. applications,
too? Hmmm. In the end, nothing prevents you from assigning any
META/MEDIA/whatever attribute to anything, so the categories maybe
don't have to be über-strict, allowing no exceptions. Right?
Regards,
Humdinger
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