[Bf-committers] Blender MIME type
jonathan d p ferguson
jdpf.plus at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 17:29:12 CET 2010
hi.
All:
Excellent work on 2.5!
Does Blender have an official IANA MIME type? I cannot seem to find
one (looking on my Debian systems in /etc/mime.types and at IANA: http://www.iana.org/)
. As web sharing of blender files becomes more common, perhaps a
default for servers would be a good idea. zoyd on IRC, helped me
uncover the fact that freedesktop.org maintains a shared-mime
database: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec#SharedMIMEdatabasepackage
in the database file "freedesktop.org.xml" with entries for blender
as:
<mime-type type="application/x-blender">
<comment>Blender scene</comment>
<snip>Translation info</snip>
<generic-icon name="image-x-generic"/>
<glob pattern="*.blender"/>
<glob pattern="*.blend"/>
<glob pattern="*.BLEND"/>
<magic priority="50">
<match value="BLENDER" type="string" offset="0"/>
</magic>
</mime-type>
I suggest that an official IANA blender MIME type would be helpful as
the sharing of blender files increases, not having to configure a
server to handle the blender MIME type, for example, might be handy---
as clicking on a .blend file will presumably, "just work." In the
past I have configured blender as a binary for MIME (similar to that
above).
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the process or requirements
for securing an official IANA MIME type, but seeing as blender has a
large user-base, perhaps it would be nice to be all official about
registering the .blend file type with IANA.
A designated representative of Blender Foundation may register by
following the instructions/RFCs at:
http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl
Thoughts?
have a day.yad
jdpf
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