shared-mime-info implementation

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Mon Dec 15 14:06:45 EET 2003


On Monday 15 December 2003 04:45, Matthew Allen wrote:
>
> When will we see KDE and Gnome start using shared-mime-info? As their
> current mime-type lists are less than compatible. e.g. KDE's use of
> 'text/x-csv' verses freedesktop's 'x-comma-separated-values'. This
> seriously effects applications interoperability and things like XDND which
> are handle data types via mime typing.
>
We are looking at it for KDE 3.3 or 4.0 (whichever comes first). Havent anyone 
merged the mime-alias yet? With that, x-csv vs x-comman-separated-values 
should not be a problem.


`Allan



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