Heya, I was wondering why GEdit opened up .rtf files on my system (instead of say Abiword, or, heck, OpenOffice). GEdit registers itself as supporting text/plain thus being the application that would support all the text/plain and subclasses of text/plain mime-types.
The problem is that a number of mime-types that are only relatively related to text/plain (ie. that are not binary) are listed as subclasses of the aforementioned mime-types. - application/rtf Lowest common denominator word processor format, useless as text - application/smil, application/x-xbel, Really a descendant of text/xml - application/x-awk and a whole slew of others Scripting languages, makes sense to edit those with a text editor - application/x-desktop A desktop file Should we modify gnome-vfs to have an application that advertises the proper mime-type rather than one of its parent as the default? (ie. if Abiword explicitely mentioned text/rtf, it would be the default, rather than GEdit that only supports the parent) Or should we remove from shared-mime-info the subclassing for those types that it doesn't make sense to edit as a file? (which would bring it inline with a number of other formats that are plain text, but make no sense to edit in a text editor, like playlist formats) Cheers --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
