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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Font Mime-Types (again)
From:       Craig Drummond <cpdrummond () freeuk ! com>
Date:       2002-05-23 16:18:11
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Further to my previous postings on the subject...

I realise that registering proper MIME-types is the 'correct' thing to 
do - but,
as I'm not an expert in the intracacies of all the font file formats, 
this is
out of my scope.

Also, at the moment it is fairly common to use the "x-" qualifier for 
font
mimetypes, whether this is 'correct' or not is another matter - and 
both KDE and
GNOME currently use the "x-" qualifier for fonts.

Currently KDE has 2 font mime-types:

application/x-truetype-font  TrueType fonts
application/x-font           Postscript & pcf fonts

...and GNOME (looking at the gnome-vfs-magic file) has:

application/x-font-vfont
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-font-type1
application/x-font-sunos-news
application/x-font-bdf
application/x-font-pcf
application/x-font-speedo
application/x-font-libgrx
application/x-font-dos
application/x-font-framemaker
application/x-font-tex
application/x-font-tex-tfm
application/x-font-linux-psf

The only conflicting entry is that for TrueType fonts. In order to 
harmonise 
things I would like to propose removing the existing x-truetype-font 
and
x-font mimetypes, and replace them with the following:

application/x-font-ttf
application/x-font-type1
application/x-font-bdf
application/x-font-pcf
application/x-font-snf         (Not used in GNOME)
application/x-font-speedo
application/x-font-ghostscript (Not used in GNONE)

The other GNOME entries I am unsure of...

Craig.
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