On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:06:18PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 06:08:17PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:39PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > > > > > A quick summary of this bug: > > > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to > > > associate certain files with it: > > > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop > > > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop > > > > And presumably another application also wants to include these files? Is > > KDE's file association system really so broken that two programs cannot both > > declare themselves able to handle a certain type of file? > > Nope, mime types are completely independent of them declaring if they > support it. That is why the mimetype really belongs in kdelibs itself > and not the 3rd party package.
Ah, so these files are to define a MIME type, and not to associate files (as they were described above). That makes more sense. -- - mdz