On Monday 10 October 2011 09:08:31 Wolf-Michael Bolle wrote: > 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.
Why don't we let the Qt creator guys do the port to QMimeType once it's ready, then? I don't understand all this rush in hacking on Qt creator mimetype stuff before qmime.git is ready, and without any re-thinking of how qt creator should handle it. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org). _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
