From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 8: 6:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2923E15758 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:06:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id IAA20223 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904281506.IAA20223@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from symnt3.Cadence.COM(194.32.101.100) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma925312001.020178; Wed, 28 Apr 99 08:06:41 -0700 Received: from pc287-cam.cadence.com ([194.32.96.111]) by symnt3.Cadence.COM with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2232.9) id JHJKDK5X; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:01:48 +0100 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:07:13 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Reply-To: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk In-reply-to: <19990428233307.B30171@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199904281323.GAA25328@mailgate.cadence.com>; from Duncan Barclay on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:52PM +0000 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:52PM +0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > I whole heartadly support John's idea and would like to add support > > for the ideas of taking with further to encode whatever to get rid of > > the obscene hack that is file extension -> action databases in > > current desktops. > > I think that there's a big difference between data file typing > and application-specific icons. > > Andrew There is, but things like magic and Apache try and type data by scrabbling around in the fiules and guessing...sometime badly. Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message