Re: File selector talk writeup

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:26, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:05, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > (gnome-vfs doesn't have binary magic files as far as I know; the
> 
> FWIW, GNOME VFS does binary file sniffing if asked to, if that's what
> you mean.  (See gnome-vfs-mime-magic.c and friends.)

If you look at Thomas's spec, it basically does compilation
of the magic patterns into a binary format ... that is, I 
think, what he was asking about.

> > gnome-vfs MIME system is pretty whacky, from everything I've
> > seen. But I think we can get it fixed to do something sane.)
> 
> I don't know the GNOME VFS MIME code much (it was all done after I
> stopped working on it), but what do you think is whacky about it?

OK, shouldn't run my mouth off like that. My main complaint about
GNOME VFS's MIME handling is that I've always had extreme
trouble configuring it when I've tried to do so from a user
perspective. But that might just be bad UI / bad docs / stupid
user.

Well, and the fact that gnome-vfs has a publically exported API
for editing the MIME database is whacky and a mistake. But
we can just make that a no-op if we need to.

Regards,
                                         Owen