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

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

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 :)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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