Created attachment 28160 [details] [review]
Patch to fix the problem.

This works in the gnome-vfs test program I wrote (see other attachment), but
doesn't seem to have any effect on Nautilus. But then again, Nautilus 2.6
doesn't seem to reload changes from ~/.gnome/mime-info either so I'm pretty
sure that's a Nautilus issue.

Created attachment 28161 [details] [review]
Test program.

The test program I wrote. Usage: ./vfs <FILENAME>
Prints a file's MIME type to stdout. Watches for changes in the MIME database
using GnomeVFSMimeMonitor. Re-prints the file's MIME type to stdout each time
the MIME database has changed.

Ping? It's been more than a month.

Thanks for your efforts. gicmo: What's your opinion?

Dave Camp, Ray Strode and Jonathan Blandford merged quite a lot of completely
new mime stuff yesterday. I think these are the best to ask for the current
status. (It may have been fix, it may be not) Better ping these one. I dont have
the bugzilla mail of them arround.

Dave, Ray, Jonathan?

It notices changes within 5 seconds, but doesn't use fam yet.

gnome-vfs-mime-info-cache.c is now using gnome_vfs_monitor_add.

/usr/share/applications/ and ~/.local/share/applications/ shows in the
gam_server's list of open file descriptors.

Updates for me are instant (upon running update-desktop-database).