Re: [XBoard-devel] mime types

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 04-01-2012 10:07, h.g. muller skrev:
> > But still it would be a good idea to avoid possible name conflicts by
> > starting names with "xboard-".
>
> But PGN is not an XBoard format, it is a general Chess concept. If there
> is another PGN viewer,
> we would want to obliterate its association with PGN files, right?

No, we would not want that. Xboard can tell the system that it is 
capable of handling PGN files, but it should not interfere with other 
programs doing the same. That would be considered a bad thing to do, and 
would not be tolerated by the distributions' packagers.

> Only
> one viewer can start when
> you click a PGN file, so possibly overwriting a competing
> pgn-viewer.desktop seems a good thing.
> Or am I missing something?

Indeed. Compete by merits, not by overwriting the competitor's files. 
This is not a war between programs. Leave it to the users to choose 
which viewer they want to use.