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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: Register KOffice with MS Office files
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-12-03 10:04:41
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On Sunday 02 December 2001 12:54, Chris Howells wrote:
> On Sunday 02 December 2001 1:42 am, David Faure wrote:
> > Hmm, not currently in KDE.
> > We define both, but we associate documents with the application/* scheme.
> 
> Yes, I wondered about that as well -- why do we need to define the documents
> using two .desktop files (msword.desktop and msword2.desktop in kdelibs),
> with different MimeTypes?
> 
> Couldn't we just get away with having one .desktop file?

Probably. Question is choosing the right one.
Looks like we have the standard (iana-compliant, vnd-*) naming and the
commonly used (application/msword) naming.

date: 2000/10/30 18:57:59;  author: pbrown;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
added application/msword counterpart to application/vnd.ms-word, flip flopped the \
extensions associated with the excel one too.  This reflects real world usage vs. \
what the standards actually said.

I guess the "real world" idea here is webservers (from which we get Content-Type
headers) and maybe other environments (anyone can check what Gnome uses ?)

If this is indeed true, then maybe we'd be better off deleting the vnd.* variants.
I know that's the IANA-compliant name, but looks like the world isn't there yet ;)

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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