Re: [Fwd: gnome-vfs-mime.h should be in gnome-vfs ?]

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 06:16, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 00:06, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Just talked to Anders about it. I need the very simple:
> > gnome_vfs_mime_type_from_name() function in freecell (from the
> > gnome-games), and this function is only available in gnome-vfs-module,
> > not in gnome-vfs.
> 
> 	Why do you need the mime_type_from_name function ? it's un-reliable,
> and only uses extension matching; why not use gnome_vfs_get_mime_type ?
> It's more accurate, and hopefully only slightly slower, I can't imagine
> what freecell would be needing to do to thousands of files that would
> make a perceptible difference there.

I believe the kosher way of doing this is actually to use get_file_info.

-Seth