Re: mime api shortcomings

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno mer, 11/01/2006 alle 14.16 +0100, Alexander Larsson ha
scritto:
> > 
> > Any thoughts/suggestions on how the api should look and on where to
> > implement this stuff? We are willing to take a look, but current mime
> > stuff is a bit of a mess to get oriented in given that it's split across
> > many files, that lots of functions are deprecated and that many mime
> > related functions are not in the public api...
> 
> I have a distinct memory that we have discussed this on irc already some
> time ago. Anyway, I see the need for these functions, so it makes sense
> to add them. 
> 

Yes Paolo Maggi probably asked about them when he implemented loading,
my mail was mostly about knowing which function names you preferred and
where to put them :)

> We have gnome_vfs_get_mime_type_for_data in gnome-vfs-mime-utils.h,
> can't we just add:
> const char *gnome_vfs_get_mime_type_for_name (const char *filename);
> const char *gnome_vfs_get_mime_type_for_name_and_data (const char *filename,
> 					               gconstpointer  data,
> 					               int            data_size);
> 

sounds good to me. Iago, feel free to get started :)

> The first is just gnome_vfs_mime_type_from_name() (availible to modules)
> with a better name. We should probably change all uses of that inside
> vfs to the new name.


ciao

	paolo