[haiku-development] Re: MimeType aliases.

Axel Dörfler wrote:

> > Cnsidering the document is plain text we
> > may want to also associate this file with
> > text/plain or text/xml.
> 
> That's not a good example, as that should be
> solved by setting the preferred app for this
> file differently, and not pretending it's 
> something else.

Just a word of caution - in case someone starts
thinking of using the "preferred app" attribute.

I think that application developers should be
discouraged from setting the "preferred app" 
attribute of individual files. This attribute
should be left as an option primarily meant for
the user. (+ occasional hacks)

Such attributes makes it needlessly hard if/when
you need to switch applications and have them open
in some other application.

E.g. NetPositive bookmarks take effort to redirect
to open in another browser, since Net+ sets itself
as the preferred app attribute on -every- bookmark.
That serves no purpose really, as the filetype is
set to open in Net+ anyway. 

One way forward is to remove all those attributes, 
but if one continues to use Net+ and FireFox side-
by-side, those pesky Net+ owned bookmarks keep 
getting created.

/Jonas.

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