[haiku-development] Re: MimeType aliases.

Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - It does not help in the case that what we want basically amounts to
> multiple types associated with a file. For example, we could have a 
> text
> editor application that would generate files with some XML-like
> formating and that associates the application/myapplication MIME type 
> to
> documents created by it. 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.
Of course, it can still be desirable to assign more than one type to a 
file in a different context.

Bye,
   Axel.

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