X-KDE-IsAlso=text/plain

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:56, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 23:48, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 22:18, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 22:47, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > > If your goal is to open text files, then I suppose that it is why
> > > > X-KDE-Text was created (by the Kate developers if I remember well).
> > >
> > > BY Waldo on my request IIRC. ;-)
> > >
> > > > In any case, if a mime type has not a X-KDE-Text but is text-based,
> > > > then this property should be added to that mime type.
> > > >
> > > > Also X-KDE-.Text is also part of the mime type database of
> > > > freedesktop.org, so if we are switching to this database in KDE4, we
> > > > should be careful that we would not have control anymore of what mime
> > > > type "is also" another mime type.
> > >
> > > So this means X-KDE-Text is not deprecated and has different functiona
> > > than X-KDE-IsAlso? I though that the latter deprecates the former, thus
> > > my idea to change the mimetypes. If not, I will change the code in
> > > KDevelop to not rely on isAlso when checking if a file is text or not.
> >
> > Personally I think that these are not the same functions. We did not
> > define the mime types (but IANA did), so we should try not to change
> > their meaning either (even if this is not always easy).
> >
> > As for X-KDE-Text being deprecated, sorry, if there was such a
> > discussion, I was not aware of it.
>
> X-KDE-Text is a kde-specific hack from before mimetype inheritance, and it
> should be deprecated IMHO.
>
> The real solution is mimetype inheritance, and I don't see a problem with
> "formatted text" inheriting from text/plain, whatever the strict definition
> of text/plain originally was (keep in mind that it's a definition in a
> context where mimetype-inheritance doesn't exist).
> The freedesktop.org database has mimetype inheritance from text/plain for
> many mimetypes (even those scripting mimetypes like application/x-php),
> (I'm the one who provided a patch for that at some point), so let's please
> use that so that the migration to the fd.o database is possible at some
> point.

Well, if freedesktop.org has changed the meaning, I will stop complaining.
(even if I still do not like it.)

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