mime-type icons, a proposal

[Waldo Bastian]

On Friday 01 October 2004 15:18, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:12 +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Monday 27 September 2004 13:40, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:02 +0100, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > > > And if you want to allow this, you need translations and inheritance
> > > > of catagories, in addition to icons. Even though
> > > > 'Catagory/Documents.Numeric' isn't a 'real' MIME type, it behaves
> > > > just like one. It has a translated description, a parent class, an
> > > > icon, and maybe some aliases.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure we need the full things like translations and inheritance.
> > > Maybe we should just call it "generic-icon-name" instead of "category"
> > > to avoid confusing it with something more complicated that we don't
> > > need.
> >
> > I don't see problems with treating them as regular MIME types. The only
> > difference is that your file-type detection function would never return
> > them. I wouldn't restrict it to icons only.
> >
> > It allows the user to express things like "find all wordprocessor
> > documents", regardless of whether they are made with kword, MSWord,
> > openoffice of abiword.
>
> Hmm. But if file detection wouldn't return them, how would you search on
> them?

Your file-type detection returns a type and then you ask "is this type a 
wordprocessor document", and then it will return yes or no, depending on 
whether the type inherits from the generic wordprocessor document type.

Cheers,
Waldo
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