From 8d221c6caa32916789f5fe20331af1d13760b0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Clasen Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:01:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Some doc additions svn path=/trunk/; revision=21129 --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ README.in | 5 +++++ docs/reference/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml | 11 +++++++++++ 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 859b3c3fc..82680abca 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2008-08-15 Matthias Clasen + + Bug 547655 – gio_can_sniff configure test can fail if not installed + with prefix {/usr,/usr/local} and XDG_DATA_DIRS env not set + + * README.in: Add a note about shared-mime-info and XDG_DATA_DIRS. + 2008-08-15 Christian Dywan Bug 547846 – gtktestutils functions lack Since: tags diff --git a/README.in b/README.in index 71b653820..254da7f5b 100644 --- a/README.in +++ b/README.in @@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ Release notes for 2.14 to GTK_SENSITIVITY_ON, so that the button is always sensitive or GTK_SENSITIVITY_OFF to make it insensitive respectively. +* gdk-pixbuf will use GIO for mime type detection if possible. For + this to work, shared-mime-info needs to be installed and XDG_DATA_DIRS + set accordingly at configure time. Otherwise, gdk-pixbuf falls + back to its built-in sniffing implementation. + Release notes for 2.12 ====================== diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog index 0f7eb481e..3e29405cc 100644 --- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog +++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-08-15 Matthias Clasen + + * gtk/building.sgml: Add a note about shared-mime-info and + XDG_DATA_DIRS. + 2008-08-13 Matthias Clasen * gtk/gtk-sections.txt: Remove useless getters diff --git a/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml b/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml index 8b5c29803..a32b725ed 100644 --- a/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml +++ b/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml @@ -255,6 +255,17 @@ How to compile GTK+ itself drawing. + + + The shared-mime-info + package is not a hard dependency of GTK+, but it contains definitions + for mime types that are used by GIO and, indirectly, by GTK+. + gdk-pixbuf will use GIO for mime type detection if possible. For this + to work, shared-mime-info needs to be installed and + XDG_DATA_DIRS set accordingly at configure time. + Otherwise, gdk-pixbuf falls back to its built-in mime type detection. + +