Suggestion: add perceived type about mime-db HOT 9 CLOSED

@thany What exactly would this be used for?

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@Fishrock123 I can see the use-case, but the real question is, where would this information come from? Is there a list somewhere?

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Is there a list somewhere?

Is there ever?

There isn't a conclusive list for anything except the mime type themselves afaik.

This, like compression, would probably take research by hand to be conclusive.

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Windows has PerceivedType built into its registry for most (every?) registered filetype/mimetype. That might be a start.

Is there a list somewhere?

This could become the list :)

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Oh hmm, I'll leave that to @dougwilson since he does more windows stuff.

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we could make this a separate lib. seems like most of the types can be inferred from the first part of the mime type. then you'll have look up for the other types like "document" and "gamemedia". could probably just be rules like regexps

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yea, i think this seems like a different lib, but idk yet. i'll look into what that windows api is doing to get this data to say for sure.

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going to put this as "maybe in v1+"

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So I looked really hard into this, and though it sounds nice to have, the way it actually works in Windows is part of the type registration (which lives in the registry). Applications can alter these types at will and there is pretty much no central place for these things to exist. It basically seems like making this would be completely hand-rolled, which seems like a large task.

It is certainly possible that we can write a script that will simply walk the registry of the current user and store all those perceived types, though it will still end up being a manually-curated list of them :)

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