Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[David Faure]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 17:46, Stuart Children wrote:
> So why do I think they're useful? There are many things one can do with 
> "text/html" or "image/jpeg". Typically, you just want to *view* it. So 
> that would be $default_web_browser/gqview. Maybe I want to *edit* it? 
> That would be bluefish/gimp. What about printing? Converting to other 
> formats? One application most certainly does not fit all.

Yes. All of that is implemented with servicemenus[1] in KDE currently,
which is based on the Action stuff but requires .desktop files to be installed
in a special directory. Not sure if that's good or bad.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).