Servicetype inheritance (Re: kdenonbeta/kopete/libkopete)

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Wed Apr 23 09:26:35 BST 2003


On Wednesday 23 April 2003 00:20, David Faure wrote:
> > > Waldo's IsAlso is a much simpler concept.
> >
> > True - but it only covers mime types, making it far less generic and
> > might even force us to add weird hacks to the messaging framework in the
> > future to allow the same since the trader doesn't support it for
> > non-mimetypes.
>
> No, the concept wouldn't be limited to mimetypes, in fact.
> X-KDE-IsAlso can surely apply to servicetypes as well, if you have a case
> where it makes sense.

No, it would only apply to mimetypes. It's semantics are expressed in terms of filetypes 
and servicetypes in general don't describe filetypes, only mimetypes do.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
bastian at kde.org -=|[ SuSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian at suse.com





More information about the kde-core-devel mailing list