On Wednesday 14 May 2008 17:40:39 Mildred wrote: > Le Tue 13/05/2008 à 19:42 Thiago Macieira à écrit: > > As far as I know, directory bundles are a concept existing only on > > MacOS X. The file browsers on Linux/Unix will treat your directory as > > any other directory. > > Why not allow directories to have mime types as well ?
I'm not saying it shouldn't be possible. I am saying it is not possible right now. Since the OP was asking how to accomplish this with existing file managers, that's what matters. > So would it be possible to slightly modify applications so they accept > to test folders for mime type (I guess since magic couldn't be used, > the detection should only rely on filename or extended attributes). That's a can of worms to open. I am not sure it would be a "slight" modification. I could be proven wrong -- with code :-) -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
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