[openbeos] Re: Identifying Text Files

On 2006-06-09 at 23:10:01 [+0200], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> More seriously, instead of creating yet another kind of addons...
> I've been thinking for some time about reusing the translators as a
> mean to index meta data from file content, by adding a 
> SniffAndIndex()
> method or so...
> that would fill in atribs from ID3 for example... (not exactly the 
> best
> example but well... or get image w & h form the file). I guess we 
> could
> use that for mime sniffing as well.

While I share Ingo's opinion, I also don't like the Translation Kit 
very much. It's designed rather poorly IMO and it's badly integrated 
with the rest as well.
For images it's nice to have, but it's of little use beyond that right 
now.

Bye,
   Axel.

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