[openbeos] Re: Why I am against distributions.
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:56:04 +0200 (MEST)
En réponse à Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
[snip
>
> Sounds like the BeOS support of MIME types/file type sniffing.
>
Yup :)
> > - available apps make known the operations they provide on data
>
> Currently the only understood operation is "open", but in principle,
> this
> is supported.
>
> > - the OS can query a central location
>
> The MIME database.
Right
>
> This sounds really like what already exists in BeOS and will, of course
>
> exist in OBOS.
>
> For those not familar with the API, BMimeType::Get/SetPreferredAppl()
> support a second parameter: app_verb. Currently only the very general
> B_OPEN is known, but it shouldn't be a huge problem to add things like
>
> B_VIEW or B_EDIT. Then "open" would be the default action, used e.g.
> when
> double-clicking an entry in the Tracker, whereas the others would be
> available via the context menu.
That sounds great, didn't even know about this (one should always read the
BeBook entirely ;)
This would add nice handling of features such as found in Windows (Edit,
compress maybe... but without the bad side... I currently have 3 "Compress"
entries, and 3 "Add to .yyy" on this PC
(one for WinZip, one for WinRAR and one for WinAce) + one "Compress and mail"
which is really silly)
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