MIME type for ASF media files

David Faure david at mandrakesoft.com
Fri Jun 21 10:12:35 BST 2002


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On Friday 21 June 2002 11:00, Shane Wright wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Out of interest, whats the general policy on MIME types - particularly those
> for files that KDE does not yet have support for?
> 
> IMO it seems like a good idea to have entries for all MIME types jsut so the
> user can see what sort of files they are
Yes (see also the xdg-list about the current standardisation effort)

> OTOH it may be confusing that KDE
> appear to know what a type is but not what to do with it.
But that's still better than "unknown file type". If KDE knows the type
then it's much easier to associate an application with it.

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