On Friday 14 April 2006 09:26, Bastian, Waldo wrote: > Yes, that's a good point. The shared mime spec is definitly where we > want to go and it would be an ill-adviced decision for a desktop to come > up with a different way. Xdg-mime is in the first place a way to speed > up that transition process from an application point of view. > > To achieve that, I would like to add to xdg-mime a way to install shared > mime-spec compliant mime-type definitions. For desktop's that don't > support the shared mime-spec yet (KDE 3, old Gnome versions) xdg-mime > could then convert it into the legacy format required by those > environments.
I think I can manage the KDE3 part, but it would be of great help if at least one GNOME developer would also participate in Portland Project activities. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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