On 19/04/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 21:43 +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote: > Looking inside a file to determine a mime type is just another hack. > The only correct way to do it is to attach meta-data to each file > (using extended attributes, for example). However this would mean > quite a radical change of how files are created, modified etc. I think meta data should be in the file, not a separate resource (and that means *IN* the file, not seeming like its in the file because the filing system is amalgamating its meta data with the file contents, on the fly). It gives you easy tranmission of the file. And if the meta data is done sensibly, quick assessment of what the file is.
Adobe is developing XMP specifically for that purpose. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/kde.html http://fedoratricks.com
