[Development] Qml mime types

[Knoll Lars]

On Dec 11, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Mohamed Fawzi <Fawzi.Mohamed at digia.com> wrote:

> I sort of expected qml-qt-quick to be considered not ok (also Marco Bubke raised that point), which is a fair point, considering BB for example.
> I am open to better naming, still I would like to differentiate
>  "file using qml syntax"
> from
>  ".qml file that is supposed to be loaded in the qml runtime or qmlscene"
> as that is an useful distinction for example to decide how to open such a file, or which search path to consider for modules in an editor.
> 
> would
>  text/vnd.qt.qml-base
> for the superclass of all files with qml syntax, and
>  text/vnd.qt.qml
> for the qml runtime specific files
> sound better?

That's a lot better for sure.

Lars

> 
> Any other proposal?
> 
> Fawzi
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Knoll Lars
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:01 PM
> To: Mohamed Fawzi
> Cc: development at qt-project.org; faure at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qml mime types
> 
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Mohamed Fawzi <Fawzi.Mohamed at digia.com> wrote:
> 
>> Now Qt has several files that use the QML syntax:
>> 
>> * .qml files of QtQuick 1 and QtQuick 2
>> * .qbs files
>> * .qmlproject files
>> * .qmltypes files
>> 
>> I wanted to clean up a bit the mime types for the editor, and introduce q generic "QML syntax" file type.
>> 
>> I began doing it using the current application/x-qml type, but Marc Mutz said that it would be better to register types with iana as they did without too much effort for KOffice.
>> 
>> Indeed registering in the vendor tree (vnd.) seems to be doable, and I think it is a good idea.
>> 
>> I was thinking of registering
>>      text/vnd.qt.qml => a file using the qml syntax, subclass of text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> 
>> and
>>      text/vnd.qt.qml-qtquick (.qml file)
> 
> I don't like this too much, as .qml doesn't have to imply using qt quick. Why not merge this with the generic text/vnd.qt.qml entry above?
> 
>>      text/vnd.qt.qbs (.qbs file)
>>      text/vnd.qt.qml-project (.qmlproject)
>>      text/vnd.qt.qml-meta-info (.qmltypes)
>> as subclasses of text/vnd.qt.qml
>> 
> These look ok to me.
> 
>> I would specify that the charset parameter should not be used in conjunction with these types, as they all use utf-8.
>> This charset consideration respect the new guidelines for text/* mime types, that were done to address the concers that made (for example) application/javascript, or the "better choice", and introduced issues with html and xml.
>> 
>> I would no make the connection to text/javascript explicit, because there are subtle differences that makes that none is a perfect subset of the other (charset & strictness, vs extended syntax), but I am open to reconsider this.
> 
> Please don't try to connect them to text/javascript. I think that would cause more confusion then it's worth it. qml is not valid JS syntax after all.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lars
> 
>> 
>> This registration should be done for qt, so I am opening the discussion about them here, and when we have a consensus the proposal can be done on ietf-types at iana.org, and then officially registred at
>>      http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl
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