Bug 289374

Summary:	x11-misc/xdg-utils: xdg-mime cannot query file types outside of Gnome or KDE
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ravi Pinjala <ravi>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs <freedesktop-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	xdg-mime.patch

Description Ravi Pinjala 2009-10-16 19:10:31 UTC

xdg-mime can look up the MIME type of a file, but this only works in KDE or Gnome, since the generic path is broken.

This issue is known and fixed upstream[1], but since upstream is somewhat dormant[2], it might be worthwhile to fix this in current xdg-utils versions in the tree, especially since the fix is a one-line patch.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11383
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/2009-July/001091.html

Comment 1 Ravi Pinjala 2009-10-16 19:11:23 UTC

Created attachment 207354 [details, diff]
xdg-mime.patch

Patch to the xdg-mime script

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-18 09:24:36 UTC

fixed by xdg-utils-1.0.2_p20100618