le ven 09-11-2001 at 08:43 Matias Griese a �crit : > 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.
It's close to what we have with unified menu. > > 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. sure -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Nous apprenons aux gens a se souvenir, nous ne leur apprenons jamais a progresser. Oscar Wilde
