[haiku-development] Re: MimeType aliases.

> > If you have an alias type and switches it to be a main type, the
> > backend
> > would copy the pointed to main type and replace the link by this
> > copy
> > and reload the data to show the new status.
>
> Here maybe it would be better if the aliases would be sub-items
> (as in the main outline listview) of each main type. Indicating
> them in italic or dark gray instead of black text as you say would
> be nice.

I'd think a symlink would be enough...
with maybe a checkbox in the FileTypes panel, like in the Vision prefs
for "use default ident"...

[ ] Alias to:<MenuField>

... normal controls disabled if Alias to is checked.

François.

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