Gnome2::VFS::Mime(3)

💖 Gnome2::VFS::Mime 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Gnome2::VFS::Mime — this is the Perl glue for poking at MIME types through GNOME's VFS layer ✨ It ships as part of the gtk2-perl docs, so if you're here you're probably deep in some GNOME-adjacent Perl situation. Let's get into it, no cap.

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🌸 METHODS 🌸

🎀 boolean = Gnome2::VFS::Mime->id_in_application_list ($id, ...)

Does this app id live in that pile of applications? Returns a boolean, so like, true/false energy 💅

• $id — a string (the id we're hunting for)
• ... — a (list) of GnomeVFSMimeApplication's

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🦋 list = Gnome2::VFS::Mime->id_list_from_application_list (...)

• ... — a (list) of GnomeVFSMimeApplication's

Returns a list of application id's. That's the whole vibe — you hand it the app objects, it hands you back the ids, periodt. ✨

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🌈 string = Gnome2::VFS->get_mime_type_for_data ($data)

Sniff out the MIME type straight from the data itself, no filename needed.

• $data — a (scalar)

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🧚 string = Gnome2::VFS->get_mime_type_for_name_and_data ($filename, $data)

Now we're cooking with both — the filename and the data get consulted together 🔥

• $filename — a (string)
• $data — a (scalar)

Since: vfs 2.14 — so if you're on anything older than that, sorry bestie, this one's not for you 😭

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⭐ string = Gnome2::VFS->get_mime_type_for_name ($filename)

Just the filename, that's it. Classic.

• $filename — a (string)

Since: vfs 2.14

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💜 string = Gnome2::VFS->get_mime_type ($text_uri)

Grabs the MIME type for a URI. Fast-ish, does its little thing.

• $text_uri — a (string)

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👑 list = Gnome2::VFS::Mime->remove_application_from_list ($application_id, ...)

Bestie this one removes an app from the list — and it's giving two things at once because the return is a bit of a double feature 💀

• $application_id — a (string)
• ... — a (list) of GnomeVFSMimeApplication's

Returns a boolean indicating whether anything was removed and the resulting list of GnomeVFSMimeApplication's. So yeah, check the boolean to see if it actually did something, then enjoy your shiny new list.

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🍓 string = Gnome2::VFS->get_slow_mime_type ($text_uri)

Same idea as get_mime_type, but it takes its sweet time and actually looks at the file contents — hence "slow", and hence the accuracy glow-up 🌟

• $text_uri — a (string)

Since: vfs 2.14

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🔍 SEE ALSO

• Gnome2::VFS

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📜 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2007, 2013 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gnome2::VFS for a full notice.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — go forth and MIME responsibly 💅✨