[BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
I wrote a post about chemical MIME ( http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2712 ) and there has been feedback about problems that it causes in some instances. Some of the comments have been on an earlier post: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2695. The issue is relavely simple,

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Craig James
Hi Peter, What to do? I really don’t know. I can think of the following: * Go back to the IETF. Chance of success? 0.0001 Perhaps this history has been discussed before, but why is the outlook so bleak? I would think the IETF's job is to encourage such contributions. Craig

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Craig James craig_ja...@emolecules.comwrote: Hi Peter, What to do? I really don’t know. I can think of the following: * Go back to the IETF. Chance of success? 0.0001 Perhaps this history has been discussed before, but why is the outlook so

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Jean Brefort
x-chemical is not accepted as a valid media type by the freedesktop tools (I tested). There are other mime types around the net, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580725 Best regards, J. Bréfort Le jeudi 28 octobre 2010 à 16:36 +0100, Peter Murray-Rust a écrit : I wrote a post

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Martin Peeks
Hi, On 28 October 2010 16:36, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Fix the behaviour of KDE. Chance of success 0.1 I don't know a huge amount about this issue, but from looking at the KDE bug you initially linked, it appears the original issue was in freedesktop. From looking at the

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Egon Willighagen
Hi Martin, On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Martin Peeks martin...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28 October 2010 16:36, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: From looking at the update-desktop-database package's website http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils, it appears

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread richard apodaca
Peter, The only time I've used chemical mimetypes is when creating Web APIs. For example, Egon recently registered substance 6-3182-8918-1909 on Chempedia. The molfile for this entry can be accessed at: http://chempedia.com/substances/6-3182-8918-1909.mol . Using curl shows that the

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
Thanks everyone - very useful. If KDE and Debian are treating chemical/ as an upperlevel type then it may well be worth trying IETF/IANA again. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: If KDE and Debian are treating chemical/ as an upperlevel type then it may well be worth trying IETF/IANA  again. I am trying to collect real world adoption on the Blue Obelisk eXchange... Ubuntu supports it too, and

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Egon Willighagen egon.willigha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: If KDE and Debian are treating chemical/ as an upperlevel type then it may well be worth trying IETF/IANA again. I am trying

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Things have changed a lot in the last hours (including some private correspondence) and I am now quite optimistic so I would certainly support it. We can make a very good case including - I suspect:  * many 100s of