Re: Draft GNOME 1.4 schedule

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus) writes:

> +++ Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:38:13PM -0800 +++
> Maciej Stachowiak e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > Open issues:
> >  
> > * Library freeze date must be checked with maintainers
> > * Gtk release target dates (to raise with Owen)
> > * new control-center release (boc can likely take care of it)
> > * relevant bonobo dates, if any (to raise w/ Miguel and Michael)
> > * PR dates - due dates for draft and final press releases, etc (Leslie
> >   and Greg working on these)
> > * Anything else I'm missing? Please let me know!
> 
> With Nautilus integrated, there are now two MIME type applets in the
> control centre, one for GNOME's MIME handling and one for gnome-vfs,
> which is very, very confusing. The functionality should be merged in
> order to have one applet control both MIME handling frameworks; that
> way the MIME types will work the same everywhere. However the
> solution, only one MIME applet should remain. Confusion over the
> duplicated MIME stuff is quite a frequent topic on the German-language
> GNOME newsgroup.
> 

The plan is to remove the old mime capplet and integrate the new one
into the control center for 1.4. The old capplet would be moved to gmc
and renamed "GMC Files and Types" or whatever, since basically the old
mime framework was only ever used by gmc.

Regards,

Maciej