On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 03:18:16PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Until this is properly documented, the bug should not be closed. > > > > > > Also that does not address why KDE need its own mime-magic system. > > > Why not using the /etc/mime-magic file ? > > > > What /etc/mime-magic file, you mean the one that gnome provides?[1] Why > > doesn't gnome use the KDE one? :P All I see that is standard is a > > /etc/magic file which does not include anything that was directly built > > into the file(1) utility, which happens to mean /etc/magic is empty. > > Then why not add mime-magic support to mime-types and share that between > all the program that need it instead of replicating the feature all > along ? It would probably make more sense to have file ship its magic file (the one with the actual data in it). If file provided its magic file then both Gnome and KDE could send their changes to upstream and everyone benefit from it, instead of just forking it. Chris
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