That is *spectacularly* broken. I assume the ogg people have been larted for this?
It's also very common: QuickTime MOV and Windows AVI files work exactly the same way. Neither has to contain video although they usually do. Even if the Ogg guys were publically larted and vowed to reform we'd still have to deal with that.
Short of some plugin API for MIME type detection (which I've wanted since forever) a hack could be to have a simple Ogg Handler program that figured out what the 'closest' MIME type is and then forwards the open file request to that program. If the Ogg file contains video, it'd go to whatever app handles video/x-theora, if not then it goes to whatever app handles application/x-ogg.
Ditto for any other container types that cannot be distinguished by file extension (are there any others?)
thanks -mike _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
