On Friday 30 September 2011 15:33:29 Wolf-Michael Bolle wrote:
> QtCreator actually provides a UI to modify the MIME type information that
> already is in the MIME database.

Yes, and so does KDE (keditfiletype).

It's quite simple, when one just has to write an xml file into the user's dir 
and re-run update-mime-database.

> Unfortunately you just brought up a problem with the approach I have been
> following. QtCreator allows you modify the entries in the MIME database. In
> my current code I allow that on the contents of the singleton that stores
> the information. I need to fix that.

Not sure I understand the issue.

> > And meanwhile you'll have to keep syncing the two copies and porting the
> > code all the time...
> 
> I agree. That will not be nice. I need to cover the time though between now
> and when QtCreator may officially depend on a Qt MIME type addon.

Well we could port QtCreator to qmime once qmime is done; I don't see why we 
(well, you) need to port it regularly, that just seems like more work given 
that the whole technical solution will change (not just API bits).

-- 
David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).

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