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| author | Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org> | 2008-08-15 18:01:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org> | 2008-08-15 18:01:38 +0000 |
| commit | 8d221c6caa32916789f5fe20331af1d13760b0ad (patch) | |
| tree | 0d6b8afddabe063983e0c47039a9a641ad5417ba /docs | |
| parent | 0d52beb5db6cda4851c7cd762ebdc41bcef6f62f (diff) | |
| download | gtk+-8d221c6caa32916789f5fe20331af1d13760b0ad.tar.gz | |
Some doc additions
svn path=/trunk/; revision=21129
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml | 11 |
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diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog index 0f7eb481e5..3e29405cce 100644 --- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog +++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-08-15 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> + + * gtk/building.sgml: Add a note about shared-mime-info and + XDG_DATA_DIRS. + 2008-08-13 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> * gtk/gtk-sections.txt: Remove useless getters diff --git a/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml b/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml index 8b5c298032..a32b725ed3 100644 --- a/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml +++ b/docs/reference/gtk/building.sgml @@ -255,6 +255,17 @@ How to compile GTK+ itself 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"> |