Re: Gtk2::FileFilter by mime type

[Zettai Muri <zettaimuri ymail com>]

> From: Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>
> I've checked the C implementation of GtkFileFilter and mime types rules are processed with  
> g_content_type_is_a[1] which has different implementations for Unix/Linux and Windows.
>
> In Linux g_content_type_is_a behaves as you expect so 'text/png' is considered a 'text/*'. I haven't tried 
> with a GtkFileFilter yet.
>
> Are you running your program in Linux/Unix or in Windows?
>
> [1]  http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/gio-GContentType.html

Thank you for this, yep that's my problem I'm running the program under Windows.  If I wanted to be able to 
run it under both Linux & Windows would I be better off using add_pattern("*.mp3") etc. to detect different 
file formats?

Or should I be testing somewhere early on in my program whether or not it is running under windows or Linux 
and then changing these kinds of tests accordingly?

Is there a recommended way to overcome these differences between different OSes?



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