Re: External Deps for GNOME 2.24 - shared-mime-info from 0.22 to 0.40

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 15 juillet 2008 à 23:18 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 27 juin 2008 à 10:52 +0200, Luca Ferretti a écrit :
> >> shared-mime-info 0.40 finally implements the "icon" and "generic-icon"
> >> support.
> >>
> >> This is needed in glib/gio in order to have a fallback icon for
> >> mimetypes (example: you have a 7zip file, your icon theme don't provide
> >> an icon for this MIME, your application will use the "package-x-generic"
> >> icon). This is a must have for Nautilus, file chooser widgets and any
> >> other MIME<->icon related stuff.
> >>
> >> OK to update?
> >
> > Be careful with shared-mime-info 0.40 : it is not backward compatible
> > with previous version of the specifications. It requires glib 2.17.2
> > minimum. It is not a problem for GNOME 2.23.x but better to say it :)
> 
> Care to explain what you mean here ? I'm not aware of any such incompatibility.

Well, I guess there are communication issues somewhere because Bastien
told me about this incompatibility when 0.40 was released and we got hit
by a bug on Mandriva cooker after pushing 0.40 but with still glib
2.16.x : nautilus was no longer able to check for correct icons. This
was fixed by upgrading to glib 2.17.2.

It seems to be visible only if user has a local mime database in
~/.local/share/mime in the "old" format, which will discard the "system"
database. More about this on
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228885

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva