On Friday 14 April 2006 00:44, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:07 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > In case you are referring to xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package, it does > > whatever the running desktop's utility does :) > > I am referring to that, yes. But what does it do, if one is writing a > new desktop, whose behavior is meant to be defined by these > specifications? Does it do the intended lookup via mimeinfo.cache?
As Waldo wrote a new desktop can provide its own xdg-utils implementation at first and/or merge their thing in the main version. However I am confident that this will consolidate into a shared specification as well, so from some point on there would be a single xdg-mime implementation sufficient for all desktops following that spec. New desktops would then be advised to also implement this spec rather than to extend/replace xdg-mime Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg