Re: Suggestion for minor interoperability advance

[Martin Konold <konold suse de>]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Christian Schaller wrote:

Oh,.. sofar I have been under the impression that we are already
compatible in this area. Where are the problems? How does GNOME handle it
currently and i the future?

Yours,
-- martin

> standard was established is mime-type registration.
> 
> Since both projects are getting new  file browsers I would think that
> now would be an ideal time to agree upon a common standard for how
> mime-types can be registered.   AFAIK this is currently handled through
> simple text files similar to the .desktop files for both systems, so if
> a standard was reached for the . desktop files themn it is probably
> reachable here too.
> 
> This would probably be an ideal project for Havoc's freedesktop.org
> group to work on.
> 
> my 0.002 cents,
> Christian
> 
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