please add mime-types

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:10:44 +0100
debtags

Enrico blogged about translating the mime-types of file to a debtags, stating "I'm not sure it's a good idea to encode mime types in debtags".

I just want to throw my two cent in here and state that I only once looked into debtooks and gave up because it does not list mime-types but some obscure other specification.

Getting suggested programs that support formats which have the same type of content like the one I want to show, to convert or to create does not help me. I most of the time do not want to edit "a video" or "a spreadsheet", but I first of all have a very specific file I want to do something with, or a specific set of formats I want to create something in. If I have a AbiWord file, Openoffice.org will not help me, and with video or audio formats it is even worse.

So after turning away disappointedly from debtags, I had to do a full mirror scan for /usr/lib/mime/packages/ files and their contents. Having that data cached in debtags would be something that really makes debtags useful in my eyes. (And the more direct and verbatim the mime-type is encoded, the more useful it would be for me).