Re: gnome-mime.c patch

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 08:24:10PM +0000, Elliot Lee wrote:
> >I happen to be working on something that uses mimetypes, and noticed a
> >FIXME in gnome-mime.c  The gnome_mime_type_or_default_of_file was supposed
> >to be checking with gnome-magic
> 
> No it wasn't (I apologize for leaving the FIXME there :) Magic scanning is
> rather slow compared to extension scanning, so it should be done explicitly
> by apps. Tom Tromey had another reason for not doing this which I forgot.

I thought that that was the reason for doing

gnome_mime_type_or_default
and
gnome_mime_type_or_default_of_file

the former doesn't do magic scanning .. the latter does ...

George

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