RE: GtkFileChooser filter API

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

> The way that the two backends now in CVS do it are:
> 
>  - Unix backend - uses the emerging freedesktop.org MIME type spec.
> 
>  - gnome-vfs backend - ask gnome-vfs.
> 
> When gnome-vfs is switched over to the freedesktop.org spec, these
> should hopefully give more or less identical results. The 
> main possible
> reason why they wouldn't be the same is different decisions as
> whether to MIME-sniff contents.

Just out of interest, how would this be done on Windows?  

Regards,
Martyn