On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 09:33 -0400, D Bera wrote: > 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).
I think this change has been reverted. However, the full solution involves adding a priority to the globs too. This has been discussed, but not implemented. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
