Re: MIME Handling

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 17:55, Darren Adams wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask a question about the new MIME system to be used in GNOME
> 2.8. Please be patient as this question might also sound stupid.
> 
> Is Nautilus the only visible GNOME program using the MIME system? I ask
> because of a problem I had when using Nautilus to launch gedit to edit a
> C source file (I have reported this at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149385).
> 
> As it says in that report, I should be able to open that C source file
> with gedit but I cannot get it to work as advertised (i.e. the C source
> file - MIME type text/x-csrc - is 'derived' is still a text file so
> should be recognised as such)[1][2]. Is this a Nautilus bug (I'll file a
> report if it is), or is this related to some other part of GNOME?

This was a gnome-vfs bug. If you upgrade to latest eel, gnome-vfs and
shared-mime-info from cvs it should work.

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