Syncing up the MIME databases

[Jonathan Blandford]

Christian Rose <menthos at menthos.com> writes:

> fre 2003-11-14 klockan 20.35 skrev Jonathan Blandford:
> > > I've noticed some inconsistancies with these mime descriptions,
> > > primarily with casing (some descriptions use lowercase, others mix
> > > upper- and lowercase) and differences in the use of plural/singular.
> > > 
> > > Are there any plans to go through these descriptions and standardize
> > > them with regards to things like this?
> > 
> > I didn't have any plans to do this, as I haven't really read through the
> > strings.  I doubt there would be serious objections outside of the
> > translators to doing this, though.
> 
> I could need some help with going through this though.
> 
> I found a document with the current gnome mime data description
> guidelines in gnome-vfs/doc/mime-descriptions-guidelines.txt (also
> attached). Could this also be of use for the common mime database?

I'm fine with this.  If no-one else objects, you should check it into
the shared-mime-info directory.

-Jonathan