Re: [rox-users] [a.wagner@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de: gnome-vfs?]

[Jonatan L. <th...@ho...>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:02:48 +0000
Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Alexander Wagner
> <a.w...@ph...> -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:20:45 +0100
> From: Alexander Wagner <a.w...@ph...>
> To: ta...@us...
> Subject: gnome-vfs?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just came accross that Rox 2.1.4 should now support the
> guessing of a filetype by it's contents. Would drop the
> necessity to name all perl-scripts .pl which would be very
> nice indeed.
> 
> Anyway, it "requires" gnome-vfs 2.8 "at least" which I can't
> meet either on my RedHat 9 (it comes with 2.2.2-4) nor on my
> Debian Testing coming with 2.6.1 (which is also Debian
> unstable). Does Rox really require 2.8?
> 
> I tried to just hack the ./configure to check only for >=2.0
> which compiles ok, but still if I have a perl-script labled
> just "test" I only get either an "executable" or a
> "text/plain" icon. Though "contents indicates" always gives
> me "perl".

Why not use "file -bi $FILE" instead?

/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-