shared-mime-info 0.17 bug

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 20:36 +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 18:18 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair:
> > Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:39 +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > today I downloaded several pdf-files from scientific journals.
> > > > Controlling the mime-type, some of them were application/PDF, some
> > > > were
> > > > text/plain. The first bits of the files are similar: %PDF- which is
> > > > the
> > > > magic key word for application/pdf. 
> 
> > Because you are an excellent testing volunteer/victim, I'd like you to
> > raise the PDF matchlet priority over 50 (so that it is preferred over
> > the single-character '%' matchlets for MATLAB and TeX, and report back
> > whether after running shared-mime-database the problem vanishes for all
> > your sample PDFs.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> 
> I would like to do that but so far I have no idea where to tune the
> preference. Please let me know where the preference can be raised.
> 

/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml

After editing that file, rerun update-desktop-database

Matthias