[Bug 260719] Vlc hangs on open file dialog

[Dawit Alemayehu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260719


Dawit Alemayehu <adawit at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |




--- Comment #33 from Dawit Alemayehu <adawit kde org>  2011-02-02 19:34:23 ---
(In reply to comment #32)
> Scanning a binary for a string strikes me as an extraordinarily bad idea!
> 
> Can't we read the version from /usr/share/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc
> instead? This is exactly what that file is installed for (and in fact other
> packages also use it at runtime, that's why that file is not relegated to a
> -devel package in Fedora, and I'd expect other distributions to also ship this
> in the runtime shared-mime-info package for that reason), and it'd be both much
> faster and less prone to trouble (e.g. scanning the executable breaks if
> somebody compresses it with upx!) than scanning the binary.

Yes, I know. The commit was caused by accidental git push which I have already
reverted. See
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commit&h=7fb75cb42a6d75d478655330861899f5efd9cb6e

Anyhow, I have reopened the ticket...

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.