Re: Important desktop-wide change (MIME)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:11, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org> writes:
> 
> > Is there really no way to make the property of an application that says
> > which mime types it handles more dynamic ? Or should we just register
> > every single mime type it could ever possibly handle, and then let the
> > application fail ?
> 
> We talked about having 'magic' mime-types for gdk-pixbuf and gstreamer,
> but short of letting gnome-vfs know about it, there's no real way to do
> this.  This isn't really a change from what existed before, though.
> 

MIME macros!

"MimeTypes=gstreamer" expands to a list of stuff ;-)

Havoc