Re: [Nautilus-list] Plain Text Problems

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 8/2/00 2:15 PM, Michael Meeks at michael helixcode com wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Darin Adler wrote:
>> There is no problem with this; it's a good idea. However it should be
>> redundant. Listing "text/*" should be sufficient and we should be able
>> to remove the "text/plain" and "text/html" items above with no effect.
> 
> Yes, I'm doing this; also I'm slightly concerned that this
> component thinks it can deal with <item value="special/webdav-directory"/>
> can someone who knows confirm / deny this ? I'll commit shortly with a
> load of other bits.

I learned since that there's some distinction between a "supertype" entry
like "text/*" and a specific type entry, but not exactly what it is. You
should talk to Maciej about exactly what this is before changing the
oafinfo, I think. Since the oafinfo is currently only looked at by Nautilus,
there's no reason to rush and change it before consulting him.

>> It seems very unusual to me that removing "text/html" from the list
>> above has any effect at all.
> 
> I imagine this is down to what order oaf returns equaly matching
> results in, as a random guestimate.

Just a side note (to the OAF maintainers :-): I'd prefer something that's
more predictable, if arbitrary.

    -- Darin