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Bug 283600

Summary: show pretty names for attachment types
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Thomas Ehrnhoefer <thomas.ehrnhoefer>
Component: MylynAssignee: Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status: CLOSED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows Vista   
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Description Thomas Ehrnhoefer CLA 2009-07-15 13:39:14 EDT
Task attachments have those types saying ("image/png") and especially "application/octet-stream"

This might be odd for some users and should have some pretty names. The text and image ones could stay since they sound self explanatory. But why not use something like "other (binary)" instead of application/octet-stream?
Comment 1 Steffen Pingel CLA 2009-07-15 16:24:28 EDT
Sounds like a good idea. Can you provide a link to a mapping of mime-types to user-friendly names?
Comment 2 Thomas Ehrnhoefer CLA 2009-07-15 16:59:23 EDT
Tried, was not successful finding anything useful, just mappings between MIME and file extension.

My suggestion would be something like

text/plain						-->	Text
text/html						-->	HTML
application/xml				-->	XML
image/gif						-->	GIF
image/jpeg					-->	JPEG
image/png						-->	PNG
application/octet-stream	-->	Other (Binary)
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST
Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn