Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2008-03-03 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 15:50 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > > > Dear Christian, > > > > > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:18 +0200, Christian Neumair w

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-29 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Sonntag, den 23.10.2005, 14:42 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 22:33 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > > > Am Samstag,

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-23 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 22:33 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > > Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 15:50 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > > > > Dear Chr

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-16 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:18 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > > Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 15:50 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > > > Dear Christian, > > > > > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:18 +0200, Christian Neumair w

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-16 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Lars Hallberg: > Christian Neumair wrote: > > >a) Backwards compatibility. I know, we haven't reached 1.0 yet, and > >don't make semantic guarantees but it's plain unfriendly to introduce > >markup in a previously markup-free string which could be in

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-16 Thread Lars Hallberg
Christian Neumair wrote: a) Backwards compatibility. I know, we haven't reached 1.0 yet, and don't make semantic guarantees but it's plain unfriendly to introduce markup in a previously markup-free string which could be interpreted plain. GNOME 2.10 and 2.12 would display the abbr tag carbon, wh

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-16 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair: > Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 15:50 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > > Dear Christian, > > > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:18 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > I'm sorry but because of b) I really have to insist on the unexpa

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-16 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Samstag, den 15.10.2005, 15:50 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > Dear Christian, > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:18 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > I'm sorry but because of b) I really have to insist on the unexpanded > > and the expanded version of a MIME description being two totally > >

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew J. Montalenti
Dear Christian, On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:18 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: [...] > I have three problems with your proposal: > > a) Backwards compatibility. I know, we haven't reached 1.0 yet, and > don't make semantic guarantees but it's plain unfriendly to introduce > markup in a previously ma

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-15 Thread Christian Neumair
On Do, 2005-10-13 at 11:44 -0400, Andrew J. Montalenti wrote: > Dear Christian, > > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:17 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > I don't know about this patch. Some of your long forms are a bit too > > > long. "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet" and "Microsoft Windows Media

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-15 Thread Christian Neumair
On Do, 2005-10-13 at 06:23 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Christian Neumair wrote: > > > > I don't know about this patch. Some of your long forms are a bit too > > > long. "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet" and "Microsoft Windows Media > > > Video video", for example, are

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Brian J. Tarricone
On 10/13/2005 3:17 AM, Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 23:48 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > >>I don't know about this patch. Some of your long forms are a bit too >>long. "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet" and "Microsoft Windows Media >>Video video", for example, a

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
Martell, Larry wrote: >What acronym can beat "TWAIN" - "Technology Without An Interesting Name" There's the YACC compiler, which, when put that way, is a triple redundancy. YACC stands for "Yet Another Compiler Compiler". -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Kelem
Dan Winship said the following on 10/13/2005 10:02 AM: Steve Kelem wrote: I disagree.  Tellling the reader what an acronym means allows the reader to look it up, even if you don't provide a pointer to where to get more info. Googling for "CSS" gives "about 236,000,000" hits. Goo

RE: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Martell, Larry
Title: Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file On Thu 10/13/2005 11:02 AM Dan Winship wrote: > Googling for "CSS" gives "about 236,000,000" hits. Googling for> "Cascading Style Sheets" gives "about 10,100,000" hits. The ac

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Dan Winship
Steve Kelem wrote: I disagree. Tellling the reader what an acronym means allows the reader to look it up, even if you don't provide a pointer to where to get more info. Googling for "CSS" gives "about 236,000,000" hits. Googling for "Cascading Style Sheets" gives "about 10,100,000" hits. The

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew J. Montalenti
Dear Christian, On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:17 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > I don't know about this patch. Some of your long forms are a bit too > > long. "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet" and "Microsoft Windows Media > > Video video", for example, are particularly long and redundant, and

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Kelem
Dan Winship said the following on 10/13/2005 07:20 AM: Christian Neumair wrote: Maybe you could come up with alternate proposals? Just kill off the acronym expansions completely. If the user doesn't know what a CSS file is, telling them that it's a "Cascading Style Sheet" is not really an

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2005/10/13, Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Christian Neumair wrote: > > Maybe you could come up with alternate proposals? > > Just kill off the acronym expansions completely. If the user doesn't > know what a CSS file is, telling them that it's a "Cascading Style > Sheet" is not really any more

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread David Faure
On Thursday 13 October 2005 16:20, Dan Winship wrote: > Christian Neumair wrote: > > Maybe you could come up with alternate proposals? > > Just kill off the acronym expansions completely. If the user doesn't > know what a CSS file is, telling them that it's a "Cascading Style > Sheet" is not rea

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Dan Winship
Christian Neumair wrote: Maybe you could come up with alternate proposals? Just kill off the acronym expansions completely. If the user doesn't know what a CSS file is, telling them that it's a "Cascading Style Sheet" is not really any more informative than telling them that it's called a "K

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Christian Neumair wrote: > > I don't know about this patch. Some of your long forms are a bit too > > long. "Cascading Style Sheets stylesheet" and "Microsoft Windows Media > > Video video", for example, are particularly long and redundant, and > > would look stupid should a

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Neumair
Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 23:48 -0400 schrieb Andrew J. Montalenti: > Hey, > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:50 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > > @@ -461,7 +489,8 @@ command to generate the output files. > > > > > > > > -<_comment>active server page > > +<_comment>ASP > > +

Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew J. Montalenti
Hey, On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:50 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > @@ -461,7 +489,8 @@ command to generate the output files. > > > > -<_comment>active server page > +<_comment>ASP > +<_long-comment>Active Server Pagee > Seems to me that's a spelling error. I don't

[PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

2005-09-07 Thread Christian Neumair
I finally had enough time to sit down and add long descriptions to the shared-mime-info XML file, as announced under [1]. It's still not complete, but at least some of the ugly strings were changed/shortened. Hopefully sb. finds time to commit this, since my account is still not renewed [2] and it