On Monday 15 August 2005 17:56, Christian Neumair wrote: > On the nautilus mailing list, a user brought up the question whether it > is possible to change the shared-mime-info MIME type descriptions to > shorter strings [1]. Back in February 2004 I also asked whether short or > long comments should be used [2], my attached patch for instance > contained: > > - <_comment>Portable Graymap File Format</_comment> > + <_comment>PGM image</_comment> > > Since the short and the long form may be useful, depending on the > context the information is displayed in, my proposal is to provide both, > a long and a short description, i.e. "Portable GrayMap image" and "PGM > image". > Therefore, I'd suggest to also add a <long-comment/> tag to the MIME DTD > and provide the relevant information, especially since we have many MIME > types which are composed of multiple N-letter-acronyms (XSL-FO, DICOM > etc.).
Sounds good to me. -- David Faure, [EMAIL PROTECTED], sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
