Hi, We use xdgmime in our application for mimetype detection. With the latest xdgmime and shared-mime-info, I observe the following (we use a detection order similar to gnomevfs-info, so thats what I am using for this example): $ echo "<html><head></head><body>hello</body></html>" > a.html $ gnomevfs-info [-s] a.html Name : a.html Type : Regular MIME type : application/x-mozilla-bookmarks ...
which is clearly not right. This happens because both x-mozilla-bookmarks and text/html match the glob pattern *.html, x-mozilla-bookmarks is a subclass of text/html (and maybe also due to higher priority of x-mozilla-boormarks). So the question is what is the right order of detection ? I found someone mentioned about this, > If only one glob matches, use that > > If no glob matches, sniff and use that > > If several globs matches, and sniffing gives a result we do: > if sniffed prio >= 80, use sniffed type > for glob_match in glob_matches: > if glob_match is subclass or equal to sniffed_type, use glob_match > > If several globs matches, and sniffing fails, or doesn't help: > fall back to the first glob match This would have the same problem as above! The currently running thread "Shared-mime checking order" is possibly relevant to this question, but its probably dealing with many more issues. If this has been discussed before, I would appreciate if someone points me to the right thread. I could not find any. Thanks, - dBera -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
