From: <ste...@gm...> - 2007-11-03 04:54:45
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Sorry about making a fuss several days ago about this feature. I agree Don's suggestion is a better solution than adding a new option. See my questions below: > "The MIME type should not be shown for obvious file types, such as > images or text documents (image/* or text/*). For other formats, we > should display the files type in a readable form if possible, > falling back to mime types only when the system does not provide a > descriptive name for mime type." Anyone know where I can get the "short" name for a mime type? Let me rephrase that -- is there an API I should be calling without reverting to implementing my own lookup dictionary? My fix is to not display the file type for image/*. I still show it even for text/plain, since it is strange to see the "document" icon for text/plain but not have a mime type. Some mime types, like OpenOffice documents ("application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text") are quite a mouthful. St=E9phane |