
I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.
yes it is a simple IMPROVEMENT... it is the way roughly 90% of the worlds pc users get their files to work with their apps.
you speak of MIME sniffing, would this be the same MIME sniffing that has slowed gnome 2.4 down to a crawl ?
would this be the same MIME sniffing that has been removed from gnome 2.6 ?
read the article again, you will see that kde does NOT need extensions