kimgio + kfile-plugin for SGI images (*.rgb, *.rgba, *.bw, *.sgi) [which mimetype?]

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue March 9 2004 16:06, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> * Waldo Bastian -- Tuesday 09 March 2004 16:00:
> > On Tue March 9 2004 12:47, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/ doesn't mention a
> > > mimetype, but
> > > http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/html4ed/appb/mimetype.html suggests:
> > >
> > >   image/rgb
> > >   image/x-rgb
> > >   image/x-sgi-bw
> > >   image/x-sgi-rgba
> >
> > Google gives by far the most hits on "image/x-rgb", extension "rgb" and
> > "RGB Image" as name. E.g. http://docs.rinet.ru/CP7/ch15.htm and
> > http://www.he.net/faq/tutorials/htaccess/htaccess2.txt
> >
> > So I suggest to go with that one.
>
> OK. And what about the other possibilities? The second link above says that
> all four can be found on the internet. Do I have to consider this
> somewhere? Looks as if KDE gets it right by using the magic info, and I
> noticed no problems so far. But what if someone sends me an attachment that
> is classified as "image/x-sgi-rgba"? Will this be a problem?

A bit, but we can add an alias for that when it appears that these mimetypes 
are indeed in actual use. I don't think they are.

Cheers,
Waldo
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