Re: What API or tool to search mime association?

["Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha" <agarobr listas gmail com>]

On 6/21/06, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:24 -0300, Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha wrote:
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> gconftool is not involved with the mimetype association.

Don't have GConf some things to do with users preferences (like user
settings for
mimetype-application association) and with the default settings on GNOME
system (like default mimetype-application associations)?

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> Where did you see gnome-vfs being deprecated?

> From "gnome-vfs-mime-database-deprecated"[1], but I was confused with
some posts advising to don't use this part of gnome-vfs API to deal
with mime types. My apologies.
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[1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gnome-vfs-2.0/gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-mime-database-deprecated.html

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> GConf supporting integration with KDE? That sounds very strange. GConf
> is the API gnome apps use to store preferences.

Strange or not, I found this:
"GConf does work without GNOME however; it can be used with plain
GTK+, Xlib, KDE, or even text mode applications as well." [2]
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[2] http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/gconf/gconf.html


Many Thanks,
Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha