Re: gdk-pixbuf and mime-types

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, June 7, 2001, at 07:26  AM, jacob berkman wrote:

> while hacking eog to use the new file selector, it occured to me that
> eog doesn't actually know what kinds of files it can open, since this
> depends entirely on gdk-pixbuf (which can actually load files of types
> it didn't come with, due to the plugins, right?).
>
> so are there problems with adding API to gdk-pixbuf to get a list of
> mime-types it thinks it can load?

An API for this would be a good addition. But that still doesn't allow the 
.oaf file to contain the proper list of MIME types, so gnome-vfs (and 
hence Nautilus) can't be told which types of files the eog component can 
handle. If we are going to fix this problem, it might be nice to fix it in 
a way that solves this aspect of the problem too.

    -- Darin