Shared-mime checking order

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Sep 17 23:35:05 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:03 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > We should also make sure that we add all possible conflicting extension
> > matches to the database. For instace, if we add "*.pdf" to
> > application/x-gzpdf then we could use sniffing to resolve which one it
> > is. 
> 
> I agree. My unit test for the *.doc conflict-resolving shows that "*.doc" should
> be added to the glob patterns for text/plain, for instance.
> Do you have access for making changes to the specification and to the shared-mime database, btw? (I don't)

I think i have write access, but at the very least i know some people
who have that i can badger if if turns our I don't. Have you made any of
these changes and would like me to apply them?




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