Re: [gcmd-dev] application/x-gmc-link

[Michael]

Alex,

What do you mean by 'remove' ? Suggesting it to the smi repo maintainers ?

I don't know if anyone is still using it. 'gmc' was the gnome file manager in 
ancient days (before nautilus), AFAIK there is no connection to gcmd. Nautilus 
still may contain gmc code. You could ask the nautilus team if they support 
this mimetype.

It seems to be a text file format containing a line (probably in the way of the 
legacy Windows links), a thing that still can be useful when you want to backup 
data containing many links to some different filesystem, especially vfat. I 
actually wanted to replace all my symlinks some day by something like this, 
because of backup problems.

cheer,m



> Hello,
> 
> While looking into an unrelated bug in the shared-mime-info package, I
> noticed that it contains the following definition [1]:
> 
>   <mime-type type="application/x-gmc-link">
>     <_comment>GMC link</_comment>
>     <generic-icon name="text-x-generic"/>
>     <magic priority="50">
>       <match type="string" value="URL:" offset="0:32"/>
>     </magic>
>   </mime-type>
> 
> Gnome Commander does not appear to support this file format any more,
> and it appears redundant to the standard application/x-desktop format.
> So is it safe to remove support for application/x-gmc-link from
> shared-mime-info?
> 
> -Alex
> 
> [1] 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/freedesktop.org.xml.in?id=eecea74886d18d6307faa2d6966c19c0fa204a93#n2028
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