[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Kexi MIME types
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-12-29 8:17:37
[Download RAW message or body]

Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Monday 29 December 2003 08:41, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Nicolas Goutte wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 29 December 2003 07:05, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Could someone please tell me what the correct MIME types for Kexi are?
>>>>
>>>>I have made the icons for the KOffice MIME types and find that there
>>>>isn't a 'desktop' file:
>>>>
>>>>	application/x-kexi.desktop
>>>
>>>The official kdelibs mime type for Kexi is application/x-vnd.kde.kexi
>>>
>>>(All new KDE mime types should use vnd.kde but unfortunately people do
>>>not care about it (see KWallet for example.))
>>>
>>>Have a nice day!
>>
>>Thanks for the info.
>>
>>Should I redo the patch for the KOffice MIME types to conform to that? or
>>should the old application's MIME types be left as they are?  Since I still
>>have the files and trees, it wouldn't take very long.
> 
> 
> No, we are in feature freeze. 
> 
> Renaming mime types has consequences. Also do not forget that KDE 3.1 has no 
> isAlso property in .desktop files so that you cannot rename mime types. (That 
> is mainly why it is still apllication/x-kword instead of the IANA-registered 
> application/vnd.kword.)

That means that the only possibility would be to add the correct MIME types in addition to 
the old ones.  But that should wait for 3.3 since it isn't a bug fix.  This isn't pretty, 
but it is the same situation that exists with other application MIME types.

> That are parts of the things that will have to be discussed and done for 
> KOffice 1.4. As we will change file formats anyway, it is even easier to 
> change the mimetype.
>
Thanks for the info.  I think that I will have a nice night and go to bed.

--
JRT

_______________________________________________
koffice-devel mailing list
koffice-devel@mail.kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]