Re: Towards standardising mime-type support

On Friday 01 April 2005 09:38, Trent Apted wrote:
> This would not be platform-specific.

The "file" program itself is platform-specific, i.e. it might not be installed (e.g. on Windows).

> Actually, looking further it
> appears that the heuristic for c/c++ files is that if a file starts with
> "/*" it is C, and if with "//" it is C++. `0xbabe` is a Java class file,
> etc.

If you want to implement any detection of mimetypes, the best thing to do
would be to use the freedesktop.org mimetype standard to avoid re-inventing
the wheel.
http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec
(also comes with implementations, which you would be able to reuse).

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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