[vorbis-dev] Mime Type and Ogg (More)

[Chris Hanson]

At 10:53 AM +0300 10/19/00, Ali Abdin wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Chris Hanson wrote:
>  > "MIME types and MIME magic" are not widely used in modern desktop
>  > apps other than web browsers.
>
>They are used in file managers. Nautilus is a file manager. We are trying
>to get Ogg Vorbis support into Nautilus ;)

What file managers which use "MIME types and MIME magic" are widely 
used on modern desktop systems?

Neither Windows nor Macintosh uses MIME types in their file managers. 
While it's commendable that you want Ogg Vorbis support in an open 
source Unix file manager like Nautilus and I don't want to stand in 
your way, I'd like to point out that the system which you insist 
needs to be supported in a particular way is nowhere *near* "widely 
used" and that this *does* affect your argument.

Besides, it appears that the decision has already been made. 
Nautilus needs to fit in with the rest of the world, not try to bend 
the rest of the world to conform to its vision (particularly where 
its vision is flawed, such as in its assumption that a MIME type or 
an imbedded magic number conveys enough information about a file to 
determine what application to use to launch it).

   -- Chris


-- 
Christopher M. Hanson <cmh at bDistributed.com>
President & CEO
bDistributed.com, Inc.
Developers of database-backed web sites

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