Aliases

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:10 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> I wanted to know which desktop(s) currently implement mime-type
> aliasing. The following patch would only work correcly if aliases were
> implemented. Otherwise I'll have to stick it in bugzilla for a later
> commit.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> PS: the RFC mentioned in the patch can be read at
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3003.txt


Gnome 2.8 has some support for aliases, but its not perfect because
there is no mapping from alias -> real mimetype, only from real mimetype
-> aliases. This needs some work.

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