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Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution



On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 06:08:17PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:39PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote:
> 
> > A quick summary of this bug:
> > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to
> > associate certain files with it:
> > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop
> > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop
> 
> And presumably another application also wants to include these files?  Is
> KDE's file association system really so broken that two programs cannot both
> declare themselves able to handle a certain type of file?

Nope, mime types are completely independent of them declaring if they
support it. That is why the mimetype really belongs in kdelibs itself
and not the 3rd party package.

Chris

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