Re: [Beaver-devel] MIME type detection library

[Leslie Polzer]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:42:34 -0400
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've been lurking on the xdg (freedesktop.org) mailing lists for a 
> while, and one of the major contributors to the current mime type spec 
> is Thomas Leonard, writer of ROX-Filer.  It is DE-agnostic, and thus has 
> its own internal library for mime types according to spec.  That would 
> be a good place to start, if one were interested in not starting from 
> scratch.
I came across ROX-Filer and the accompanying Desktop project a while ago
while in search of some small DE. I didn't download this stuff, but I
wasn't averse to it; in fact I liked it more than those bloaty DEs.
I'll take a look at the library and then decide on things.

> But, I'm not particularly interested in getting too involved in such an 
> endeavor.  I just don't have the time.  But, if you were to go forward 
> with it, I could help a bit.
That's alright - I'll keep you updated.

Greetings,

Leslie

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