Re: using deprecated gnome_mime instead of gnome_vfs_mime (was file moniker patch)
- From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>
- To: Darin Adler <darin eazel com>
- Cc: Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir helixcode com>, <gnome-components-list gnome org>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>
- Subject: Re: using deprecated gnome_mime instead of gnome_vfs_mime (was file moniker patch)
- Date: 30 Nov 2000 14:55:22 -0500
> My only worry is that the old MIME database gives answers that are often
> wrong, and different from the new one. If the trivial hack in the moniker
> code will still work well enough when it gets incorrect MIME types for many
> files, then I guess this is fine as an interim measure.
>
> Problems with the old MIME code and database weren't noticed by non-gmc
> users, so there were many, many problems with it.
It seems like we can copy the core keys files into gnome-libs. And we
could also replace the incomplete magic file in gnome-libs with the
one in the gnome-vfs, unless the format has changed a lot.
miguel.
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