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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    [Fwd: Re: shared-mime library.]
From:       Jaime Chang <jchang () idealcorp ! com>
Date:       2005-03-29 20:49:04
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["Re: shared-mime library." (message/rfc822)]

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:57:28 -0500
From: Jaime Chang <jchang@idealcorp.com>
Organization: I.D.E.A.L. Technology Corporation
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To: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: shared-mime library.
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On 03/28/05 08:51, Matthias Clasen wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:51 +0000, Tobias wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello.
>>
>>I just wanted to ask if there is any plan to have a offical supported 
>>shared-mime parser library released from fdo/xdg? The one that exsist is 
>>the libsharedmime which is written in c++ and doesn't suit my needs. 
>>Will there be a library from you guys or should I wrap xdgmime directly 
>>into xmms?
>>    
>>
>
>xdgmime has only been used by copy-and-paste so far, and I doubt that is
>going to change anytime soon, so that is probably your best bet, unless
>you can use e.g. the gnome-vfs api for this.
>
>  
>
Why is that? xdgmime seem like a usable library to rely on for parsing 
the data from the shared-mime-info package. It shouldn't be hard to make 
it a complete library.

Jimmy




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