Re: Mozilla, MIME types, and GNOME

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> Basicly, I think we are looking for some sort of GNOME API that we could
> plug into Mozilla so that it could query the GNOME MIME types.  Failing
> that, something that could convert the mime.types to mozilla's RDF format.

It shouldn't be a GNOME API it should be a API that can be used by any
UNIX desktop environment whether that is KDE, XCFE, GNOME etc.  It just
makes things more complicated with each project implementing hteir own
stuff.

> I'm sorry I couldn't code this up myself, but I am working on
> understanding the GNOME framework so I can do this sort of stuff in the
> future.  (The problem lies in that we need someone who knows both code
> bases, or knows one well and the other well enough to fix this "problem")

There is at least one person at Ximian I believe who came from the mozilla
group who could probably answer for this.

	sri