Created attachment 2237 [details] [review]
wmv.patch

I am not an expert on video formats, but attached patch helps at least for some
WMV files.

Created attachment 2238 [details] [review]
typos.patch

And a patch for partially related typos. It also adds missing Danish from CVS
to package and fixes it.

I've also found adding the following to work well.    
<alias type="video/x-ms-wmv"/>
<alias type="video/x-ms-wma"/>
to the ASF entry.

(WMA is a new type I added to freedesktop.org.xml - pretty much WMV)

Indeed Nautilus doesn't seem to be impressed by sub-classing but simply aliasing
works well.

Remember to run "update-mime-database /usr/share/mime" (or whatever your
system-wide directory is) after editing freedesktop.org.xml if you're manually
patching. To make Nautilus recognize the changes, restart it (killall nautilus).

I guess that in Nautilus 2.12 (and latest shared-mime-info) it is fixed:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171595
(And the need to restart, probably too.)

Created attachment 4954 [details] [review]
wmv.patch

Updated version of patch for 0.17.

After the wmv.patch patch, nautilus consistently considers files as WMV, not as ASF.

The typos.patch is still valid, too.

Rationale for sub-class-of instead of alias (cut and paste from the specs):

alias elements indicate that the type is also sometimes
known by another name, given by the type attribute. For
example, audio/midi has an alias of
audio/x-midi. Note that there should not be a
mime-type element defining each alias; a single
element defines the canonical name for the type and lists all its aliases.

sub-class-of elements indicate that any data of this
type is also some other type, given by the type
attribute.

A type is a subclass of another type if any instance of the first type is
also an instance of the second. For example, all image/svg files are also
text/xml, text/plain and application/octet-stream files. Subclassing is about
the format, rather than the catagory of the data (for example, there is no
'generic spreadsheet' class that all spreadsheets inherit from).

Created attachment 4957 [details] [review]
typos.patch

Updated version of typos patch. it also fixes and adds Danish translation,
which is missing in the tarball, but present in the CVS.

For typos.patch:

2006-03-15  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * configure.in: also install the Danish translation, patch from
        Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> (Closes: #2051)

2006-03-15  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * da.po:
        * fr.po: Fix a couple of typos, patch from Stanislav Brabec
        <sbrabec@suse.cz> (Closes: #2051)

2006-03-15  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * freedesktop.org.xml.in: Add a mime-type for WMA (Closes: #2178),
        and make it and WMV sub-classes of ASF (Closes: #2051), patches from
        Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>