From koffice-devel  Thu Nov 29 10:47:16 2001
From: "Chris Howells" <howells () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:47:16 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: .desktop files for MS Office apps
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=100703071915049

> From: Nicolas Goutte <nicog@snafu.de>

> Yes, that is also what I have thought months ago when I defined 
> "application/abiword". I have put it with my filter. Today, I think that
I 
> should not have done this.

Right. I'd probably say that it should go in kdelibs as well, now that I
understand what .desktop files to a bit better :)

> - Konqueror uses mimetypes too, displaying separate icons.
> - Developpers tend to search the mime types at the well know place in
kdelibs.
> - Some developper could need it too and create again the same mime type
as 
> you, because he does not know that it already exists.
> - When someone needs that same mime type, he is not going to browse all
KDE   
> packages to find where it is defined. (I had this problem with
"text/book". I 
> still does not know where it is, but that is not my problem anymore.)
> - Translation teams will translate kdelibs first and kdelibs will be 
> monitored more closely by translation teams than KOffice.

Good points.

> If your problem is the file pattern *.doc, this was already handled
sooner 
> this year. David Faure had made efforts to find "application/msword" by 
> other means than by file extension.

Hopefully that actually won't be a problem :)

> You have luck, desktop files are handled "automagically" for translation,

> unlike normal source code.
> 
> And Stephan Kulow runs regularly a script that extracts all strings to be

> translated.

Ah wonderful, that's just what I needed to know. Thanks :)
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