Re: Bug#195214: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:06:18PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> 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.
Ah, so these files are to define a MIME type, and not to associate files (as
they were described above). That makes more sense.
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- mdz
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