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| author | Thomas Leonard <tal@ecs.soton.ac.uk> | 2002-05-23 19:15:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Leonard <tal@ecs.soton.ac.uk> | 2002-05-23 19:15:23 +0000 |
| commit | 6a785b5cf026dfcebf976af2bb02d6e6d9311169 (patch) | |
| tree | 75783db9ab7a22a098a65f612bd2ba552c738d8d /shared-mime-info-spec.xml | |
| parent | 7f845d48f50e52601a002ab915e392435fe4635e (diff) | |
| download | shared-mime-info-6a785b5cf026dfcebf976af2bb02d6e6d9311169.tar.gz | |
user.mimeinfo file.
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diff --git a/shared-mime-info-spec.xml b/shared-mime-info-spec.xml index ba7ff759..f7f8a6e7 100644 --- a/shared-mime-info-spec.xml +++ b/shared-mime-info-spec.xml @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ </authorgroup> <title>Shared MIME-info Database</title> - <date>09 May 2002</date> + <date>23 May 2002</date> </articleinfo> <sect1> <title>Introduction</title> <sect2> <title>Version</title> <para> -This is version 0.7 of the Shared MIME-info Database spec, last updated 09 May 2002. +This is version 0.7 of the Shared MIME-info Database spec, last updated 23 May 2002. </para> </sect2> <sect2> @@ -368,8 +368,11 @@ future extensions. Programs modifying any of these files MUST update the modification time on the parent (<filename>mime-info</filename>) directory so that applications can easily detect the change. The rules from the directories in this list take -precedence over conflicting rules from earlier directories. Thus, the user's -settings take precedence over all others. +precedence over conflicting rules from earlier directories. If a directory +contains a file called <filename>user.mimeinfo</filename> then it should be +read after all other files in that directory. This is to allow the user's +settings to take precedence over all others — GUI tools for editing +the MIME types will edit <filename>~/.mime/mime-info/user.mimeinfo</filename>. </para> </sect2> <sect2> |