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

[David Faure]

On Monday 15 August 2005 17:56, Christian Neumair wrote:
> 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.).

Sounds good to me.

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