Re: Gnome-vfs API accessing system default MIME database ?

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

"725eb0c8ef771c09ee" <zjc99 mails tsinghua edu cn> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> As I know, GnomeVFS maintains system default MIME database, 
> and user specific MIME database, which are located at /usr/share/mime-info, 
> and .gnome/mime-info.
> 
> But seems that GnomeVFS only provides API to access/modifying the 
> user-specific MIME database, but couldn't modify system default MIME data.
> 
> Is it possible to use GnomeVFS API to modifying the system default
> MIME data ? Or, is there any other API to make it ?

No.  The idea is that GnomeVFS is a userlevel library, and isn't really
intended to be run with root permissions to do such things.  There are
no changes to fix this, either.

Thanks,
-Jonathan