From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 21:58:39 EDT
--- Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote: >
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 09:08, Håvard Wigtil wrote:
> > I'm trying clean up the mime types for Abiword in
> Gnome.
>
> That would be text/abiword IIRC.
Doesn't it need to be text/x-abiword or somesuch for
non-official mime types?
Andrew Dunbar.
> > One problem is that there is some confusion on
> what the executable name
> > should be. IIRC, in older releases there used to
> be in /usr/bin an
> > "AbiWord" link to the executable, where as recent
> releases only ship
> > with an "abiword" link. (And the link is not part
> of the files listed in
> > the RPM, which is IMHO bad.)
>
> The link is there, just try to do: rpm -q abiword
> --scripts
> Besides, a user that would be confused with that,
> probably doesn't even
> know how to do rpm -ivh file.rpm.
>
> > Alex Larson seemed to remember a statement to the
> effect that you would
> > always ship a "AbiWord" binary or link.
> >
>
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-vfs/2002-March/001142.html
>
> I did not ever hear such, if that was the intention,
> I had no idea.
>
> > So what's the official policy on this? If the
> official policy is to only
> > ship "abiword", when was the last release shipped
> with an "AbiWord"
> > link? And do you remember if previous releases
> shipped with both
> > "abiword" and "AbiWord"?
>
> I don't think there's any need for both, and lower
> case strings is the
> standard (real standard or de facto? I don't know)
> for unix aplications.
>
> Hugs, rms
>
> --
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough --
> unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
> + So let's do it...?
>
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