Re: mime_type_is_known()

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 21:21, Bryan Forbes wrote:
> I was working on Coaster today and I had recently upgraded to gnome-vfs
> 2.7 and I got a warning from bakery about an mime-type that was unknown.
> I checked and all the mime-types that coaster uses are registered
> correctly and nautilus reports them correctly.  I started digging and
> found that bakery uses Gnome::Vfs::Mime::type_is_known(), which wraps
> gnome_vfs_mime_type_is_known().  I opened up the source to that function
> and saw this:
> 
> gboolean
> gnome_vfs_mime_type_is_known (const char *mime_type)
> {
> 	if (mime_type == NULL) {
> 		return FALSE;
> 	}
> 
> 	g_return_val_if_fail (!does_string_contain_caps (mime_type),
> 			      FALSE);
> 
> 	if (!gnome_vfs_mime_inited)
> 		gnome_vfs_mime_init ();
> 
> 	reload_if_needed ();
> 
> 	return FALSE;
> }
> 
> Why does this function always return false?  If this is the correct
> behavior for this function, is there a way to tell if an mime-type is
> known?

No, this is a bug. This function was missed in the moving to the new
mime type system and will have to be fixed.

Btw. What do you need the function for?

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