On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As we all know, Haiku relies in a MIME-based system to identify file types. > This was a really smart thing Be did and we, of course, adopted in Haiku. > Still, this system is a bit awkward and under-utilized and I have two > specific pet-peeves that I think could improve the situation: There may be something to learn from Apple's solution http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/11