Re: Why file content sniffing sucks

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 06:50 pm, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
>
> The point I have been trying to make for a while is that systems should
> have ONE magic database.  This database should be shared by file, GNOME,
> KDE, etc.  The problem of maintaining a database that correctly identifies
> types, given the diverse range of files out there is big.  One database
> should be maintained by all so that it is as accurate as possible.
>

http://freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec

Hth,

Christophe