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[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 21:21, schrieb Andras Mantia:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 22:11, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Sorry I do not like it.
> >
> > The mime type text/plain is about human-readable text, which things
> > like application/xhtml+xml or text/html or even source mime types are
> > certainly not.
> >
> > RFC 2046:
> >
> > <quote>The subtype "plain" in
> >           particular indicates plain text containing no
> >           formatting commands or directives of any sort. Plain
> >           text is intended to be displayed "as-is".</quote>
>
> Than how can we know if a files can be opened in a text editor or not?

The question is rather "should be opened", not "can be opened". This is an 
partially unsolved problem the (well, my :) hexedit part stirred up some time 
ago*. See the thread "khexedit2 shows up everywhere" on this list**.

Take an svg file. What type of applications/handlers to you expect to deal 
with it? SVG editor? XML editor? Text editor? Byte stream editor? All can 
handle an svg file: SVG is XML is text is byte stream. What do we expect in a 
file browsing application? What in a developer application? What elsewhere? 

I started*** some idea along the lines of sematic levels. But there has never 
been some further discussion, neglecting other ideas. Please push this a 
little more...

* Solved by simply unregistering it for now #(
** http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110943084215798&w=2
*** http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=111022408818769&w=2

Regards
Friedrich
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