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

[Taral]

Quoting Chris Hanson <cmh at bDistributed.com>:

> And if your desktop environment doesn't keep the orthogonal concepts 
> of file type and launching application separate, that's a design 
> flaw.  Fix it in your desktop environment, figure out some way to 
> work around it, or live with it.  Don't try to dictate that "audio 
> Ogg streams should use audio/ogg and video Ogg streams should use 
> video/ogg and just ignore all those pesky edge cases."

Here, here! Hence what I was saying earlier about a SuperOgg application. If you 
_really_ have to separate audio and video players (which may well be necessary), 
don't bloat the file manager with the content-detection logic. Down that path 
lies monolithism.


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