[RFC long] Opening files from different applications (gideon) - generic MIME configuration problem?

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 24 July 2003 02:35, Roger Larsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have you ever been hit by a MIME type related bug?
> I have, they are among the most common bugs that I run into when using KDE.
> And worse - they may lead to really strange problems...
> Especially when applications (konqueror, gideon) makes silent overrides!
> This is mostly to trigger some thinking in large - I will file additional
> bug reports / wishes for the specific issues later.

I think a lot of the text:plain related issues can be solved with the new 
isAlso property of mimetypes.

E.g. applications such as kword, kate and khtml shouldn't check for mimetype 
== text/plain but should check for mimetype.isAlso(text/plain) instead.
That way they will suddenly understand that they can open application/x-python 
just fine. (Assuming application/x-python has an is-also-text/plain property)

Cheers,
Waldo
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