Re: proposal for MIME behavior in GNOME
- From: Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>
- To: Julien Olivier <julo altern org>
- Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>, Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>, John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>, GNOME Desktop Devel List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: proposal for MIME behavior in GNOME
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:21:10 +0000
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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