Re: ly files as a MIMEtype?

[Karl Hammar]

Valentin wrote:
> sometimes I wonder what it would take to register .ly files as an
> official "text/lilypond" MIMEtype (for instance at IANA, on
> http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl )

Very nice idéa!

But it seems you have to read a lot of rfc's for that.

An easier way might be to file a "bug" report in debian like
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379838
and other distributions.

Or the lilypond installation might add it.

...
> (if you don't know which icon I'm referring to, have a look at
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/pictures/ly.xpm
> )
> 
> Therefore, I have taken the liberty to draw some icons (attached
> here), based on the "note" icon.
> - one follows the Apple human interface guidelines
> - one follows the MS Vista guidelines (yeah, no comment)
> - one follows the Tango guidelines (GNOME, XFCE and GTK)
> - one follows the Oxygen guidelines (the official theme for KDE4)

Wery nice examples, but I must say my first reaction is the it looks 
like a stand, a claw, or something, but not a note.

> I don't know what to do with these, maybe you guys will have an idea.
> It would be just great if GNOME or KDE included a default lilypond
> MIMEtype Icon for .ly files (the Windows/Apple ones could just be
> provided with the binary program).

Great work.
/Karl