On Tuesday 05 March 2013 13:28:15 Thomas Kluyver wrote: > In the file structure, the priority attribute is a property of the magic > matching rule, not of the mimetype. The description in the spec, on the > other hand, seems to be relevant to the Mimetype overall: "Low numbers > should be used for more generic types (such as 'gzip compressed data') and > higher values for specific subtypes (such as a word processor format that > happens to use gzip to compress the file)." > > So does it make sense to use this even when we're not using the magic > matching rules?
No, the "glob weight" is what should be used to choose between two globs. But I guess the question is "what if the weights are the same?". Well, same globs, same weight, and same magic (or no magic), is a complete conflict, I don't think there's anything sensible to do other than fixing the mimetype xml (which has been done for this case already). Maybe Jerome meant addin a new package-level priority value, so that freedesktop.org.xml always has priority over weird 3rd-party mimetype definitions. But I'm not sure we really want that. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
