[openbeos] Re: Haiku - FreeDesktop.org cooperation proposal

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:15 AM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Haiku - http://www.haiku-os.org/about
>  To: FreeDesktop.org
>
>  GNU/Linux has gained quite some momentum on the desktop, with the help
>  of Gnome and KDE environments, and the FreeDesktop.org project.
>  ...
>  However we believe we can cooperate on several points:
>
>  * Haiku can certainly adhere to some freedesktop.org standards where it
>  is relevant.
>
>  For example, we currently have our own mime database, inherited from
>  BeOS, but it is concievable to reuse existing freedesktop.org provided
>  types in some way, and contribute some new types.
>

Ars technica had an interesting article on file types on the mac os x
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/11
here's the problem: maybe Haiku may one day decide that something like
the UTI system is better than the mime approach (especially for those
cases where mime is extended). If we are already committed to linux
standards it would be much harder to switch to a different system

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