[haiku-development] Re: MimeType aliases.

Axel Dörfler 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.
I was not thinking about the preferred app. I was thinking about cases like Microsoft Word documents (application/word). Anyway, every single text/xml is an specialization of text/plain so we could conceivably have a file with both types associated.
Of course, it can still be desirable to assign more than one type to a file in a different context. 

Well, I think we would want to do that even in this specific context.

-Bruno

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