Hi, is the ebook, html detectable. Then it might make snse to use some different mimetype for it (text/html+ebook). You would need a matching rule for the shared-mime database.
Stefan Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi, > > Since the issue came up with FBReader again > <http://groups.google.com/group/fbreader/browse_thread/thread/d94b00716de82b0a/80acca278e8b2e7c?hl=en>, > I thought I'd repost an earlier request for clarification: > > FBReader supports, among other things, HTML files. There are many books in > HTML form. However, there are also websites in HTML form, etc. > > Now FBReader would like to associate with the text/html file type, but if it > does that, a user who wants to open websites will have problems. > > If, on the other hand, FBReader doesn't associate with the text/html file > type, a user who wants to open books will have problems. > > Hence, it would be best if the file manager / gnome vfs supported associating > "open this file with FBReader, but open that file with The Web Browser". > > Every file type that is standardized (XML, ...) will have similar issues, so > there really is no way this can be left out and still be usable. > > Please have a look at > <http://www.scratchpost.org/nokia-770/plotting/file-manager/> and reply here > what you think. > > If possible, I'd like to hear the opinion of the maintainer of the file > manager especially. > > I'd implement this myself (I did, partly, for maemo's "gnome-vfs"; but that > doesn't help much), but alas, the file manager's source is not available. > > cheers, > Danny > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
