text/x-vcard should be preferred over text/directory
Submitted by Marius Vollmer
Assigned to Shared Mime Info group
Description
Created attachment 25731 Use text/x-vcard instead of text/directory for VCards.
In Maemo, we got some interoperability problems because VCard files were detected as text/directory. We fixed that by detecting them as text/x-vcard instead. This is an unwelcome deviation from freedesktop.org.xml but right now I think we are right and freedesktop.org.xml should be changed with the attached patch.
I understand that this might have been discussed to death already, and I am no expert on this anyway. Matthias Hasselmann mathias@openismus.com will have better arguments. I'll invite him over.
In general, I think that renaming mime-types will simply not work and the whole notion of one type being an alias of another seems to be asking for trouble (but I don't know the history of text/directory either, so I better shut up).
Patch 25731, "Use text/x-vcard instead of text/directory for VCards.":
250_vcard-types.patch