Quote from a developer of Sylpheed-Claws in sylpheed-claws-users list: >>>> Lo Felix, On 01-03-04 (Mon) 18:06 +0100 Felix Eckhofer wrote: | http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/net-mail/sylpheed-claws/files/procmime.patch?rev=1.2 Also: Tell the gentoo maintainer that this patch has several bugs. Let him also contact us, and explain to us what the hell he was trying to achieve. Bye. <<<<< I don't really know which bugs he's talking about so it may be best if one of you just gets in touch with him. You can subscribe to sylpheed-claws-users at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sylpheed-claws-users regards, felix
Hmm, the subscription url somewhat disappeared, so here it is again: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sylpheed-claws-users
Said patch was incorporated over a year ago to use the freedesktop shared MIME-info database specification instead of a less used/maintained mime.types file. Luzero made the patch which afaik hasn't been reworked updated in a while. The patch seemed to be in the right direction at the time, but maybe the decision needs revisited. Personally following freedesktop implementation/guidelines/standards is something I like. See link for more info: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec
I've sent a mail to Alfons about it, lets await the response.
no response yet and I don't see any obvious problems with the patch
