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

Warren Turkal wt at midsouth.rr.com
Thu Jan 15 23:17:41 EET 2004


George wrote:

> We shouldn't hide the technical details (and distinction between GIF and
> JPEG format is a technical detail, and while you may care about it, vast
> majority of users don't even have a clue about it

The problem here is that not every graphics programs opens every kind of
image. So you get someone wondering why program A won't open all "Raster
images" on their computer.

wt
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Warren Turkal
President, GOLUM, Inc.
http://www.golum.org




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