Re: Important desktop-wide change (MIME)

[Jen Sohn <seth gnome org>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 4:12pm, 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.

Still, given the move to a totally new system seems like something that 
should be adressed (esp as this issue will probably become more common 
in the future)

-Seth