Re: proposal for MIME behavior in GNOME



On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:16, Julien Olivier wrote:
> The point is that it wouldn't be there as GIMP is not a viewer, but an
> editor. IMHO, I think it's pointless opening a RO files with an editor.
> That's why I wouldn't like GIMP to be the default handler for RO files.

Not really, you could open a read-only file from a CD-ROM, modify it and
save it to a different name in your home directory.  For example, with
PhotoCDs.  You would not want to copy a photoCD file to your local disk
(as they are massive) just to extract and modify the low-resolution
image.

Ross
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