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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Any use for uri/* and all/* MIME types?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-12-21 9:28:26
Message-ID: 1525946.WhVCnRa8vx () asterix
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On Tuesday 05 November 2013 10:36:08 Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> KDE 4.x core components currently add the following MIME types to
> system, among others:
> 
> all/all
> all/allfiles
> uri/mms
> uri/mmst
> uri/mmsu
> uri/pnm
> uri/rtspt
> uri/rtspu
> 
> Those MIME types define non-standard media types "all" and "uri",
> which update-mime-database complain about.
> 
> I found exactly two users of all/*: Ark and Okteta; and no users of
> uri/* at all. Could those media types be dropped? I assume they are
> needed for some backward compatibilty - with what? Or are they serving
> some purpose still?

I do wish we could clean this up, but your searching is incomplete:
E.g. uri/mms is used quite a lot
http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=&string=uri%2Fmms

I have no clue what this uri/ mimetypes are.

all/allfiles is deprecated in favour of application/octet-stream, feel free to 
make patches to replace one with the other and drop all/allfiles in 
frameworks.

all/all means "files and directories", I have some trouble finding use cases 
for that.... If there is, e.g. for a context-menu .desktop file, then it could 
simply be associated with application/octet-stream + inode/directory.
Send patches my way :)

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5


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