On Thursday 08 December 2005 23:01, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:03 -0500, Jaime Chang wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a reason why the freedesktop.xml files has an association > > between .dat files an video/mpeg mime type? > > The VCD (video CD) format stores MPEG files under the .dat extension.
Which looks like a pretty bad reason to associate .dat with video/mpeg though. dat means data, and anything is data. $ file /home/dfaure/.openoffice.org1.9.87/user/registry/cache/org.openoffice.TypeDetection.Filter.dat /home/dfaure/.openoffice.org1.9.87/user/registry/cache/org.openoffice.TypeDetection.Filter.dat: data $ file /home/dfaure/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat /home/dfaure/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat: ASCII English text $ file /etc/cups/ppds.dat /etc/cups/ppds.dat: data $ file /usr/share/dict/ooo/th_en_US.dat /usr/share/dict/ooo/th_en_US.dat: data $ file /usr/lib/samba/valid.dat /usr/lib/samba/valid.dat: data => not a single video/mpeg file in all the .dat files on a standard linux system. The extension should be removed; mpeg files can be detected based on their content. -- 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
