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authorMatthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org>2008-08-15 18:01:38 +0000
committerMatthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org>2008-08-15 18:01:38 +0000
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drawing.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info">shared-mime-info</ulink>
+ 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
+ <envvar>XDG_DATA_DIRS</envvar> set accordingly at configure time.
+ Otherwise, gdk-pixbuf falls back to its built-in mime type detection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="building">