Mime Spec updates: Matching order and generic icons

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Tue Mar 4 07:32:10 PST 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:34 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:36 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > Attached is an update to the shared mime specification that adds two
> > > things:
> > 
> > Here is an updated version based on some feedback from david faure.
> > Apart from typo fixes and such the difference is:
> > 
> > * No magic prio 80 special rule, as this is no longer needed with the
> > new glob conflict resolution method.
> > 
> > * Renamed the glob priorities to "weight" to avoid the misunderstanding
> > that the magic and glob priorities are in the same global priority
> > scheme.
> > 
> > * Added description of new file formats
> > 
> > * Emphasizes that the icon and generic-icon data is availible in the
> > per-type xml file (as well as in the icons and generic-icons files)
> 
> Looks fine to me.
> No other comments for a month -> can you commit to CVS?

I'll do that right now. I don't have time to work on the code to handle
this atm though.



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