On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Tom Badran wrote: >> POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 "mozilla" "text/html" >> POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del "mozilla" > That sounds like a great solution. Do kde and gnome both use this for mime > types? Also, you have to be careful with the del in case the item being
No. Nobody uses a central database for mime type handlers, because there isn't any. Even applications inside Gnome/KDE have their own mime files..:( But I would like this to change and the only thing towards working "pick a file and choose the program to run it" would be this kind of sollution. Of course the programs and users would have their own preferences, but in the case where there aren't any, they could pick _some_ application to run the file instead of letting the novice user to guess which application he/she needs to see a pdf document etc.. I just looked at gnome-vfs, galeon and mozilla. They have all their own mime files, but as thay all are in text/xml, exporter would be quite(?) easy to make for them all. And of course the implementer could always go to talk mozilla/gnome/kde people. :) > deleted is not there (due to manual editing) and make sure that doesnt throw > any erros / crash rpmdrake etc. Sure this is a bit of work to implement now, Of course this kind of database must be first designed so that this kind of situations would not arise. > but the amount of effort going into things like devfs etc. surely means that > this is a worthwile venture. I have installed mandrake on machines for people Agreed. > Just my thoughts, its pretty hard to think of how to improve such a sweet > distro. There is always room for iprovement. But there is usually not enough time to do it. Regards, Matias
