Mimetype names (Re: mimetypes for zipped files)

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 01:04, Marc Mutz wrote:
> I thought the per-application mimetypes were actually only needed internally, 
> to shove the data to the right part. The overall structure of KOffice 
> documents seems to be identical. They just get different extensions. It seems 
> unnatural to force a distinction where one isn't present.

Err, reminder: Konqueror (and all of KDE) uses the mimetype to know which
application to launch. The primary use of mimetypes in KDE is to associate
applications with files!

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