On samedi 8 mai 2021 08:08:17 CEST Thayne wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 8:35 AM Marc Pervaz Boocha <mboo...@sudomsg.xyz> > > wrote: > > Another option is maybe have an option in the the definition of > > mimetypes xml files to have some kind of derivation. So all text/xml is > > will be marked as text/plain for applications. > > that seems more complicated to me than a system that uses the default app > for text/* if there isn't one assigned for text/xml at the same level, and > I'm not sure what the benefit is. Note that I'm only proposing that the > wildcard would be allowed as the entireity of the type after the slash.
text/* kind of makes sense, but image/*, video/* or application/* doesn't, there's no application that can for sure handle all of that. So instead of a one-use-case wildcard support, the mimetype spec has support for inheritance. If you associate any application with text/plain then it WILL be associated indirectly with all text/* mimetypes. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
