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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] New mime types in KOffice
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-12-13 17:15:04
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On Friday 13 December 2002 17:45, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> In the past, new mime types for KOffice were created somewhere in KOffice and 
> then one day or another pushed to kdelibs. It would perhaps be better if it 
> could be made more systematic.
> 
> I propose a directory koffice/mimetypes where all new mime types are created. 
> I also propose a directory koffice/mimetypes/kde31 where all mime types only 
> needed for KDE 3.1 will go, when the mime type is defined in kdelibs CVS 
> HEAD. (Of course kde32 will be added when needed and so on.)

Sounds very good. I assume that some autoconf magic would take care of 
not installing those mimetypes if KDE provides them (based on its version number).

> If this way is accepted, I will put all current mime types defined in KOffice 
> in the new directory mimetype, before putting them in CVS HEAD and in the new 
> directory kde31. (Attached is the list of the mime types defined in KOffice.)
Don't move x-example.desktop :)
(but renaming it to vnd.kde- might give the good example)

> PS.: another possibility would be to put new mime types not in 
> koffice/mimetypes directly but in a sub-directory could new, current or head.
In fact I don't see why we would ever need mimetypes there, in something
not called like a KDE release.
For all the mimetypes you list, they should go into kdelibs in the HEAD branch,
and into koffice/mimetypes/kde31. We don't need them in koffice/mimetypes/{head},
since people using head will get them from kdelibs.
(We don't need to care about kdelibs > 3.1 and < today)

> PS2: it would perhaps be good if some of these mimetypes (for example Kexi's) 
> would change to the "x-vnd.kde" (for example "application/x-vnd.kde.kexi") 
> format before we have to change them later. For them it is not too late, as 
> for KWord for example.
Yes.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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