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Subject: Re: .desktop files for MS Office apps
From: "Chris Howells" <howells () kde ! org>
Date: 2001-11-29 10:47:16
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> 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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