Re: [rox-devel] MIME-Editor

[Christopher A. <chr...@we...>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> I'm hoping to make a release of the MIME-Editor app in a few days.
> Could people download it and try it out? You can get a CVS snapshot here:

Some quick observations:

Bugs:

type.py, lines 230 resp 243 should read:

	doc = override.get_override()

override.py, line 3 should read:

from xml.dom import Node, XMLNS_NAMESPACE

fields,py, line 141 should read

type.data(x) == self.item[1]:

Here are a few suggestions:

- sort the list by mime-type on start-up and after adding a new mime-type
- add a hint to the dialog that adds a name matching glob, that all globs
  are case insensitive
- the button for editing a mime-type or a node in an entry reads
  "Eigenschaften" in German, probably "Properties" in English.
  This should be "Bearbeiten" resp. "Edit" IMHO.

Overall the interface for editing an existing mime-type IMO is too
lowlevel. If you don't know the shared mime-type database spec you will
not grasp the concept of the GUI either. Probably the dialog for adding a
new mime-type should already ask for the most important entries, i.e. a
list of glob patterns and a default description, and then tell the user
how he can add the rest, if he needs to.

Otherwise, great work and instantly useful and usable!


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