From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 10:58:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5D21065672 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0B88FC16 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from virusscan.mail (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BC8A079B for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AE9A0793 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wthp192.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.192]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437C7A073C for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from wep4035 ([132.187.37.35]) by mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Lotus Domino Release 8.0.2HF443) with ESMTP id 2009021311585666-63386 ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:56 +0100 Received: by wep4035 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:56 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:58:56 +0100 To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20090213105856.GA42303@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/13/2009 11:58:56 AM, Serialize by Router on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/13/2009 11:58:57 AM, Serialize complete at 02/13/2009 11:58:57 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Cc: Subject: [Fwd: shared-mime-info: image/x-fits -> image/fits] X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:58:58 -0000 Hello gnome maintainers! Just realized I'm jumping over the maintainers' heads :)) For now this message is blocked while I'm not on the xdg list... Should I continue tracking this issue or some of you will step in? Also, this mime type 'strict matching' could beat someone else, so FWIW. Alexey. ----- Forwarded message from Alexey Shuvaev ----- From: Alexey Shuvaev Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:40:51 +0100 To: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org Bcc: Alexey_Shuvaev/uni-wuerzburg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: shared-mime-info: image/x-fits -> image/fits Hello all! The long history short: FITS image mime type is officially registered since 2005. So it is named image/fits and application/fits now. The history of acception: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/fits/mime/ RFC 4047: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4047.txt Some more background information. FITS = Flexible Image Transport System. It is used to store, for example, astronomical data (images, but not only). The format rather complicated and is suitable to store many kinds of data (n-dimensional arrays of data, geo-coordinates, a lot of key-value pairs, etc...). So application/fits should be used to describe such general purpose files. However RFC 4047 defines image/fits as a type to describe FITS files with some limitations intended to ensure these files could be displayed by the browser. I am not sure how feasible would it be to add application/fits to freedesktop.org.xml (almost nobody uses it), on the other hand shared-mime-info does not provide software to actually view or modify registered types, it is only a database of commonly used ones. As of image/fits, I think it should be fixed. Why am I concerned? Well, I am the maintainer of x11-toolkits/slgtk package for FreeBSD and it includes gdk-pixpuf-loader for FITS images. It used to work with gtk-2.12 series but suddenly refused to work with gtk-2.14. It appears that the loader says it recognizes image/fits type while shared-mime-info contains only image/x-fits. Renaming one of the above makes the loader to work again. Anyway, please inform me on your decision(s) as I have to fix the FreeBSD package one way or another. And, please, CC me, I'm not on the list. Thanks, Alexey. ----- End forwarded message -----