On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:17:45 -0700 From: Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extension Proposal (First Draft)
Alan Horkan wrote:
Again it is not so much other applications understanding the format so much as having the immediately be able to recognise them as XML without requiring any magic.
That's pretty much a non-issue. Most every XML-savvy editor will autodetect an XML file from it's preamble.
you are presuming opening the application first and opening the document from there. I'm thinking of clicking on a document from withing a file manager. Of course if the new extension is properly registered the point is moot, but the small point I'm making is that you would need to bother adding any sort of association if the file was named .xml
And what ammount of work is needed for that?
In general, just double-click on the .inx file, the OS will ask what program to open it with and give you a checkbox to remember the choice.
i dont know about you but I find the interface for that in Windows to be slightly unpleasant and downright horrible in Gnome.
That's all. Problem solved in a few seconds, only once for any given user/computer. So it's both trivial to solve and rarely encountered.
if the extension was left as .xml it wouldnt be necessary at all.
What about people who want to edit .inx in a different XML editor than other types? If you overload the name, there is no easy way for them to
there is no benefit _yet_ in associating the files with anything especially, if and when there is a benefit I'll drop the objection.
Just imagine if Microsoft had called .ini files .txt files instead. That's pretty much the route you're advocating.
ini files are by default associated with a text editor
if the proposed extensions will be automatically be associated with some useful applications without users needing to do anything extra I wouldn't have an objection.
now that I think of it the .inx files would probably want to be associated with Inkscape.
- Alan