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

Christian Neumair chris at gnome-de.org
Fri Jan 16 16:23:07 EET 2004


On Do, 2004-01-15 at 15:17 -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. To be honest I'd like to figure out those issues later and have
a consistent, clean naming convention for the moment.
So maybe we should just commit this patch.

regs,
 Chris




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