On Sunday 22 October 2006 12:55, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > A Dissabte 21 Octubre 2006 21:05, Jos van den Oever va escriure: > > The solution given here: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/007544.html > > is not entirely clear to me. > > If I understand correctly, each plugin may add support for additional > > mimetypes, so the part of the .desktop file that talks about mimetype > > support for an application should be dynamic. How will the proposed > > XML format solve this? > > Ignore that :-D > > Basically each plugin installs a desktop file that says that extends that > virtual mimetype adding some mimetypes. For more in depth explanation on > how the .desktop has to look, see my patch, there is a nice description of > that.
I suggest to support it by means of a XML snippet in the shared mimetype format (may need some extension there if it isn't expresable by any of the current Is-Also semantics) Other than that I like the idea and I think it's something that is very useful. Cheers, Waldo -- Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
