shared-mime-info question

Thomas Leonard tal00r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri May 14 13:53:25 EEST 2004


On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:53:43PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2004 16:22, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:51:40PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 May 2004 15:28, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > The alternative is to make all the scripts inherit from both
> > > > application/executable and text/plain, rather than creating a new type.
> > > > Either way is fine by me.
> > > 
> > > Oh the mime spec supports multiple inheritance? In KDE we stopped at
> > > single inheritance, it's somewhat simpler/faster....
> > 
> > When you make an extensible system, you can't really avoid it.
> 
> OK after discussing it with Waldo we agreed on supporting multiple mimetype
> inheritance in kde4. So ok for letting those scripts inherit both
> application/x-executable and text/plain. Can you make that change, as
> well as the ksh cleanup? Thanks.

Could you add a patch here:

http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=shared-mime-info

Do you want to have application/x-executable-script (and have the
multiple inheritance on that, for text/plain and
application/x-executable)?


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