Re: updated MIME plan

[Tino Meinen <a t meinen chello nl>]

Just an idea, please don't shoot me if it is stupid.

we used to be able to create nautilus scripts where one could perform an
action on a file like: convert this .wav file to a .ogg file.

Is it possible/desirable to extend the MIME-spec to include information
on the kind of operations that can be performed on certain mime-types?

So for the above example, when a user installs the oggenc program, it
registers automatically that .wav files can be converted to .ogg files
with oggenc?

Tino Meinen


Op vr 23-04-2004, om 22:28 schreef Jonathan Blandford:
> Hi,
> 
> I just updated the proposed MIME plan at
> http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/
> 
> It's more fleshed out now, and reflects the current status of GNOME.  I
> really want/need to get this fully into GNOME by 2.8 and will be
> spending the next few months implementing it.  It's pretty simple, and
> will hopefully be something that users will have no trouble with.
> 
> Additionally, we'll concurrently be working on a newer spec for mapping
> applications to MIME types at freedesktop.org.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
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