No you do not seem to understand. I've explained the need for mimetypes for directories. I think that's not only my problem, I think in general that it's a good thing to have these, to have of classification of directories.
I'm not in irc. I stick to the maillist. Stef 2010/12/21 Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecr...@stegny.2a.pl>: > Dnia wtorek, 21 grudnia 2010 o 09:14:49 napisałeś: >> 2010/12/21 Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecr...@stegny.2a.pl>: >> > Dnia poniedziałek, 20 grudnia 2010 o 17:59:17 Stef Bon napisał(a): >> >> Now this construction uses a sort of mimetypes for directories to >> >> identify directories and the meaning they have in the context. >> >> >> >> For example I'm using the type local.dev.disk.ata.partition for a >> >> partition on an ata disk. >> >> Another example: remote.net.smb.share for a remote smb share. >> > >> > These strings are not media types. A directory has a (fake) media type >> > "inode/directory". It is fake because you cannot send a directory over a >> > network as a unit (which is the problem media types try to address). >> >> I understand the difference between a directory and a file. But is >> that the problem to not have mimetypes for directories? >> > > Directories do have a media type under XDG; it is "inode/directory". Please > join irc:/#freedesktop if you have further questions. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg