On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:07:32PM +1300, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > It'd be nice if there was a mime type associated with every file. > That's the job of the file manager, not the OS. > Konqueror has a few mime types defined. > It uses the approach (1) above, ie .XXX
NONONO!!!!! this is a job of the OS. it should NOT be necessary for the filemanager to guess the correct type. the type needs to be stored in an easy to access place, and it should NOT be the filename. (thus .xxx is out) and neither should it be necessary to open the file itself and inspect the contents to get the type. do not assume that just because you have a solution that appears to work that it is the correct one, and others are wrong. BeOS so far is the only one to get it right. Mac OS got close but it makes the mistake of giving the file creator precedence over the file type. greetings, martin. -- i am looking for a job anywhere in the world, doing pike programming, caudium/pike/roxen training, roxen/caudium and/or unix system administration. -- pike programmer Traveling in Singapore (www|db).hb2.tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at (www.archlab|iaeste).tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org mud.at is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
