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
> 
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