Tons of questions. And some patches

[Frans Englich]

On Sunday 25 January 2004 17:42, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2004 15:47, Frans Englich wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:41, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Frans Englich wrote:
> > > >* There's a lot of non registered mimetypes(ie. x-diff). Why
> > > > aren't they registered at IANA? Is there a any reason to register
> > > > them?
> > >
> > > AFAIK, because it's not easy to register MIME types with IANA that
> > > aren't application/vnd.*
> >
> > Yeah, IIRC you would basically have to specify the file format in a
> > RFC, as well as the formal process was more complex(consensus had to
> > be reached in some standard body outside IANA).
> > But that shouldn't prevent the types from being registered as vnd.*
> > ..?
>
> vnd.* is for vendor specific mime types like vnd.sun.xml.writer for
> OpenOffice.org text documents. diff is obviously no KDE specific mime
> type, so registering it as vnd.kde.diff doesn't make any sense.

True. I don't know if anyone have suggested registering them under the "kde" 
vendor tag. I would say a "freedesktop" tag, FSF, or any other non-profit 
organization which is suitable and has an interest.

Cheers,

		Frans