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Re: [gcmd-dev] application/x-gmc-link
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Alex Henrie |
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Re: [gcmd-dev] application/x-gmc-link |
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Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:03:31 -0600 |
2014-07-27 6:06 GMT-06:00 Michael <address@hidden>:
> What do you mean by 'remove' ? Suggesting it to the smi repo maintainers ?
Exactly. I'd like to suggest removing application/x-gmc-link to the
shared-mime-info 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.
OK. I'll ask the Nautilus maintainers.
> 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.
Couldn't this be accomplished with .desktop files?
-Alex