Hi David, > > I have come to understand that QtCreator is > > maintaining a local MIME database that is completely independent from the > > system MIME database, and is built from scratch from XML files that are > > part of the QtCreator distribution. > > Yes but it doesn't have to stay that way! > > It was done this way because, well, there was no code for accessing the > system MIME database. > > Someone (who I understood to be from the Qt Creator development team) said > on this list earlier that Qt Creator could and should use the system > database once qmime exists.
I didn't feel ready to make such design decisions on them. ;-) I wanted to preserve their existing functionality and their way to fill their MIME database. Michael _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
