[interfacekit] Re: BRoster::FindApp()

"Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Okay, it could also just ignore it then, but doesn't change the 
> > preferred application. In any way, it only does something when the 
> > preferred application is not available anymore - only if the MIME 
> > type 
> > meta information was not correct.
> I also think that FindApp should ignore the preferred app if an app
> of applicable signature doesn't exist.  It should fall back to the 
> default
> application for the mime type.  (don't change the setting of the
> preferred app attribute though)

Good, so do we want to do that now?

> > > PS: Shouldn't our ShowImage have the same signature as the 
> > > original 
> > > one?
> > That would make bad applications happy, as well as my MIME database 
> > :)
> > I think it's okay for testing purposes to have any signature, but I 
> > am 
> > not really sure about the final thing for applications like this.
> My understanding was that we had this discussion where we concluded
> that we would use new mimes except in cases where it was required to
> maintain the old ones for compatibility purposes.  (like Deskbar, and 
> a
> handful of others)

Sounds reasonable.

Bye,
   Axel.

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