On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 17:22 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Montag, den 25.04.2005, 10:46 +0200 schrieb Olaf FrÄczyk: > > As the content sniffing is not 100% reliable (ok, nothing is :), beyond > > the user control and will not work, ever, for some file types (mostly > > the Microsoft OLE stuff) is there any way to disable the content > > sniffing? > > We should really try to fix the OLE mime detection stuff instead of > trying ugly workarounds (disabling sniffing, that is). The problem seems > to be that the "subtypes" also match the OLE container type. This > problem is known and Christophe Fergeau seems to have fixed xdgmime [1]. > Maybe you could try out whether xdgmime HEAD/gnome-vfs works for you. > You may have to reimport xdgmime into gnome-vfs/libgnomevfs to make it This is the exact problem. It is not what you can expect from a regular user - I mean getting sources from CVS and recompiling them. Most of the usere doesn't even know what a compiler is.
The end-user solution is to have a button "For this extension don't use sniffing and assume that mime-type is xxx" or something like this. The extension-only methond is sufficient for me. I see no other advantage of sniffing over extension that you can have more than 1 mime- type for 1 extension. And such are very rare (the only one I am aware of is real audio and rpm). And no, I don't want a new war about what solution is better. I just say it is OK for me. > work. I'm very much willing to help you if you need any support. Thank you. So it means that there is no such option (to disable sniffing). Unfortunately I have no time to dig into this, so I just comment the sniffing code out. > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2005-April/006848.html Regards, Olaf -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
