[RESEND] [PATCH] Clean Up MIME Strings (was: Re: shared-mime-info's terminology)

[George]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:03:49PM +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> The problem is that the comment tells me nothing I couldn't work out from
> the name (and I still have no clue what this file is).
> 
> The original entry:
> 
>    <comment>Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine image</comment>
> 
> looks like it would be much more useful to a user wanting to know what
> 'Image.dcm' is. If you want it shorter, perhaps something like "medical
> image"?
> 
> Likewise, image/svg+xml ("SVG image") could perhaps be "scalable image"?

Yes, I think this is important.  This is sort of like me calling the socket
protocol SUP and the fifo protocol SOP.  Other people have no clue what I'm
talking about, and it really just makes me looks smarter then I am (or like
an idiot, I can't decide).  However if it's something that's exposed to the
user, it should be "usable".  The user should not need to be educated in all
the abbreviations that geeks use to use the computer.

George

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