On 2018-02-08 02:47 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
Yeah, I tend to agree with the maintainer here, although I find the term "shared object" a bit overloaded.
Good news is that he *has* decided to make the change, since so many packages depend on what file/magic does.
So I guess there may be a different interpretation of what "executing a file using a file manager" means.
I'm not sure Nautilus is a shining example. First off, they seem hell-bent on removing useful features: current releases make it deliberately difficult to use more than one tool to open files, and the next release will have *no* desktop integration. No icons on the desktop for us pesky users who have expected it for the last ~30 years! Secondly, the attitude of "just make a desktop file" is utterly infuriating. I can probably successfully make these 1 out of 3, and unless it's your job to do it, it's really not obvious how it's done. (The 1 out of the 3 I can get working is because I have a working application launcher desktop file, and I just sed out the executable name …) I was really hopeful that 2018 would be the year of Linux on the desktop, too.
There's also a very interesting comment later on (comment #10), saying that Nautilus doesn't rely on "file", but rather on other libraries which provide the "MIME guessing" for it.
oh great — another point of failure! So if even the original file/magic system is updated, Gnome's will lag behind. Stewart