[haiku-development] Re: MIME types.
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:48:20 +0200 CEST
Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> I guess one way to minimize it would be to have "MIME type aliases"
> in a
> way that one specific MIME type is the preferred one (when files are
> created, they will be created with this type) and the others are just
> aliases that map to this one. Those aliases could be partially
> created
> through some heuristics like type/x-subtype = type/subtype but also
> by
> allowing the user to configure this. An interface to allow that would
> be
> required (probably in the Filetypes preference panel).
That was already suggested some years ago - maybe it was even you, I
don't remember.
IIRC everyone thought this was a good way to solve this, just nothing
happened afterwards :-)
It's not really urgent, though, IMO.
[...]
> And I would expect Tracker to show, in folders with only was or MP3
> files, all the super-type attributes plus the attributes for any
> specific sub-type in the list.
I think this should be solved inside Tracker. The FileTypes preferences
application could of course show the attributes coming from a super
type, too (like it does with icons), but that's not a requirement.
Bye,
Axel.
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