On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:05PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote: > On 20 Jan 2011, at 13:42, Niels Grewe wrote: > > > Also, it is worth noting that there is a freedesktop.org spec > > [0] for associating mime-types with applications. Maybe we should > > consider supporting that as well [1] for people who occasionally use GNUstep > > applications on their whatever-is-considered-fancy-this-week desktop. > > I think this would be a nice thing to support, but it's not clear to me from > scanning the spec that it's possible to correctly handle bundles. It looks > like you can define things for directories, or you can define things for > files with a specific extension, but not for directories with a specific > extension (although, like most fd.o 'standards' it's missing most of the > explanation of how it works.
I thought one could do this by adding a glob-pattern to a subclass of the built-in pseudo-type inode/directory but that does not seem to work. Apparently nobody thought about the bundle approach to things when designing that. > I'm also not really sure how it will interoperate with UTIs. Maybe someone > should poke fd.o to adopt UTIs, rather than MIME types, as the core > representation, since they're more expressive... UTIs are pretty smart. I'll check whether there are smart people available at fd.o. Cheers, Niels _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
