Mime Spec updates: Matching order and generic icons
Bastien Nocera
hadess at hadess.net
Mon Mar 3 10:10:26 PST 2008
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:05 +0100, David Faure wrote:
<snip>
> This is not good! It means that any mimetype xml file I generate now with an icon field,
> will break for users who have not upgraded to the future version of update-mime-database
> which will include support for the icon field!
>
> 1.20 (talex 05-Mar-03): g_set_error(error, MIME_ERROR, 0,
> 1.20 (talex 05-Mar-03): _("Unknown freedesktop.org field '%s'"),
> 1.20 (talex 05-Mar-03): field->name);
>
> I suggest making it a warning at least -- or removing that else clause completely,
> to allow future changes in the mime spec.
That sounds fair. Feel free to commit a patch to do that, or let me know
when you want this fixed by (and file a bug).
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