Hey there. :) I noticed that libgnomevfs library 1.0.5 looks for mime-info files in two locations: GNOME_VFS_DATADIR (a C preprocessor symbol that gets hardcoded into the library) and ~/.gnome/mime-files. I've been seeing how to make GNOME play nicely with GNU stow so it is possible to install each of GNOME's packages into a different directory and use environment variables and similar mechanism to make it work. I'm creating a document with instructions on how to do this. Unfortunately, as libgnomevfs has the system directory for the mime-info files hardcoded, it is impossible for the user to specify it. In my situation, I would like libgnomevfs to look for these files in /usr/local/share/mime-info rather that in the datadir for the location on which the gnome-vfs package was installed. Attached is a trivially simple patch that fixes this and causes gnome-vfs to look in the directory specified through the GNOME_VFS_DATADIR environment variable (this environment variable is checked at run time rather than at compile time). The only other viable solution involves forcing the admin to keep the mime-info files in gnome-vfs' prefix updated with links to all the files in the GNOME directory. I'd rather go for specifing an environment variable, specially as a similar mechanism has already been implemented for similar GNOME packages (through variables such as GNOMEDIR, GNOME_PATH, GNOME_LIBCONFIG_PATH, GNOME_GNORBA_PATH and so on). Notice that this makes it possible for the user to override the default system directory for mime-info files, which shouldn't matter (but then again I am not familiar with gnome-vfs ins and outs). Please let me know if I can expect my changes to get included in the next official release so I will know what to write in my instructions document. Thanks. :) Alejo. http://bachue.com/alejo -- The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution. -- Albert Einstein. $0='!/sfldbi!yjoV0msfQ!sfiupob!utvK'x44;print map{("\e[7m \e[0m",chr ord (chop$0)-1)[$_].("\n")[++$i%77]}split//,unpack'B*',pack'H*',($F='F'x19). "F0F3E0607879CC1E0F0F339F3FF399C666733333CCF87F99E6133999999E67CFFCCF3". "219CC1CCC033E7E660198CCE4E66798303873CCE60F3387$F"#Don't you love Perl?
diff -Naur gnome-vfs-1.0.5/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-mime-info.c gnome-vfs-1.0.5-alejo/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-mime-info.c
--- gnome-vfs-1.0.5/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-mime-info.c Fri Mar 15 03:33:01 2002
+++ gnome-vfs-1.0.5-alejo/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-mime-info.c Thu May 9 05:40:53 2002
@@ -969,6 +969,8 @@
static void
gnome_vfs_mime_init (void)
{
+ char *gnome_dir = getenv("GNOME_VFS_DATADIR");
+
/*
* The hash tables that store the mime keys.
*/
@@ -984,7 +986,7 @@
* Setup the descriptors for the information loading
*/
- gnome_mime_dir.dirname = g_strconcat (GNOME_VFS_DATADIR, "/mime-info", NULL);
+ gnome_mime_dir.dirname = g_strconcat (gnome_dir ? gnome_dir : GNOME_VFS_DATADIR, "/mime-info", NULL);
gnome_mime_dir.system_dir = TRUE;
user_mime_dir.dirname = g_strconcat (g_get_home_dir(), "/.gnome/mime-info", NULL);
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