[rox-devel] Re: Type guessing updates

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:38:27 +0100, Stephen Watson wrote:

> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:
> 
>> I've changed the way we mark files as executable. Now, we guess the MIME
>> type first, and then mark it executable (shown with green text) if the
>> type is a subclass of application/x-executable.
>> 
>> This means that PERL scripts will now be clickable, even though they have
>> a known type. Please test!
> 
> This broke all my shell scripts!  Shared MIME info 0.14 (as supplied in SuSE
> 9.2) has only 1 sub-class-of, for inode/mount-point.

Actually, it's the switch to guessing file types by content that did that.
This is the fix ;-) I've added an extra rule to rox.xml (installed by
install.sh). That should fix it.


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