[openbeos] Re: FreeDesktop.org collaboration ?

yes my point is that one of the biggest standards that we might have
in common  with freedesktop was the mime db. If we make a big deal
about working with freedesktop and then later on decide that mime is
insufficient and throw it all out, we'd look a little silly.

Be originally used the original mac typing scheme and then Chris
Herborth convinced them that mime was superior. So it would be
interesting if Haiku were to move from mime to the new mac scheme one
day

On 1/28/07, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > For example we do have a mime db. They try to standardize that kind
> > of stuff, and have a central repository for them. That's the
> > example
> > of things we could maybe work together on, without complying to
> > every of their recommendations.
>
> This is interesting because this review
> http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/11
> claims that MacOS X's file typing solution UTI is better than MIME
> And since mac is a standard unified desktop, maybe it makes more
> sense
> to look what they are doing.

Yes they use multiple keywords, a bit like some website now use (tags).
It seems quite powerful but I'm not sure it's all settled down yet.
Maybe that's something for R2.
In the mean time we could still do stuff with mimes.


François.

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