[RFC] having short and long MIME type descriptions in shared-mime-info

[Christian Neumair]

On the nautilus mailing list, a user brought up the question whether it
is possible to change the shared-mime-info MIME type descriptions to
shorter strings [1]. Back in February 2004 I also asked whether short or
long comments should be used [2], my attached patch for instance
contained:

-    <_comment>Portable Graymap File Format</_comment>
+    <_comment>PGM image</_comment>

Since the short and the long form may be useful, depending on the
context the information is displayed in, my proposal is to provide both,
a long and a short description, i.e. "Portable GrayMap image" and "PGM
image".
Therefore, I'd suggest to also add a <long-comment/> tag to the MIME DTD
and provide the relevant information, especially since we have many MIME
types which are composed of multiple N-letter-acronyms (XSL-FO, DICOM
etc.).
On a sidenote, maybe a bugmaster/CVS master could handle [3]?

[1]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-August/msg00029.html
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-February/003277.html
[3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887

-- 
Christian Neumair <chris at gnome-de.org>
-- 
Christian Neumair <chris at gnome-de.org>
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