Re: Mime Type Analysis

[David Faure <david mandrakesoft com>]

On Friday 01 December 2000 00:31, you wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:32:48 -0500 (EST)
> > Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> wrote:
> >
> > > Putting MIME type handling in .desktop files is broken - there's not a 1:1
> > > or even a 1:many relation between applications and MIME types.
> >
> > There's also not a 1:1 relation between applications and .desktop files.
> 
> While the requirement doesn't exist for 1:1, practically speaking the vast
> majority of .desktop files are this way. MIME type mappings this simple
> are much less common.

There is a 1:1 relation between a mimetype and the desktop file that
describes _it_. Where it == the mimetype.
Not the associated applications.

-- 
David FAURE, david mandrakesoft com, faure kde org
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
See http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html for how to set up KDE 2