hi. All:
Excellent work on 2.5! Does Blender have an official IANA MIME type? I cannot seem to find one (looking on my Debian systems in /etc/mime.types and at IANA: http://www.iana.org/) . As web sharing of blender files becomes more common, perhaps a default for servers would be a good idea. zoyd on IRC, helped me uncover the fact that freedesktop.org maintains a shared-mime database: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec#SharedMIMEdatabasepackage in the database file "freedesktop.org.xml" with entries for blender as: <mime-type type="application/x-blender"> <comment>Blender scene</comment> <snip>Translation info</snip> <generic-icon name="image-x-generic"/> <glob pattern="*.blender"/> <glob pattern="*.blend"/> <glob pattern="*.BLEND"/> <magic priority="50"> <match value="BLENDER" type="string" offset="0"/> </magic> </mime-type> I suggest that an official IANA blender MIME type would be helpful as the sharing of blender files increases, not having to configure a server to handle the blender MIME type, for example, might be handy--- as clicking on a .blend file will presumably, "just work." In the past I have configured blender as a binary for MIME (similar to that above). I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the process or requirements for securing an official IANA MIME type, but seeing as blender has a large user-base, perhaps it would be nice to be all official about registering the .blend file type with IANA. A designated representative of Blender Foundation may register by following the instructions/RFCs at: http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl Thoughts? have a day.yad jdpf _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
