[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #5821: [FileTypes] some images open in WebPositive
- From: "stippi" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:28:03 -0000
#5821: [FileTypes] some images open in WebPositive
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Reporter: diver | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1/alpha2
Component: Kits/Application Kit | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blockedby:
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Comment(by stippi):
Ok we agree it's a configuration issue. What I don't agree with is that
it's always better to fall back to the preferred application of the super
type, even if a supporting application exists that would handle the
specific type better than the preferred application of the super type.
Consider the example of image/svg+xml. The user has conveniently
configured ShowImage for image/* even though there may actually be image
types, such as image/svg+xml, which ShowImage doesn't even handle at all.
So I believe the misconfiguration is at the application level, when
applications claim to support a specific type, even though they don't have
a good reason for this at all. Indeed WebPositive directly supports
image/png, but there is no good reason to inject this information into the
MIME type database resolving system, since WebPositive is a web browser,
not an image viewer.
To address your specific proposal for a solution, I don't believe it would
solve the issue. That there is no preferred type configured for the sub-
type should be the common case, so how would that be different to what I
implemented? And there being a misconfiguration with the preferred app
missing should be the minority of cases, which is again addressed by my
change.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/5821#comment:5>
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