Bug#276656: gnome-libs-data: mime type for word documents

[Loïc Minier]

clone 276656 -1
reassign -1 shared-mime-info
retitle -1 mime type for word documents is wrong
forwarded -1 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153781
thanks

     Hi,

Frédéric Gobry <frederic.gobry@epfl.ch> - Fri, Oct 15, 2004:

> In /etc/mime-magic, Word documents are marked to be of type
> text/vnd.ms-word. This seems to be incompatible with other declarations
> (either in gnome or in the standard mime system), which use
> application/msword. Side-effect: nautilus refuses to open .doc files an=
d
> insists on associating another application (whereas openoffice and
> abiword are installed)

 You're right that /etc/mime-magic is wrong, but I think your problem is
 either caused by the Shared MIME Info database which resides in
 /usr/share/mime.  This needs to be fixed in /etc/mime-magic, but this
 is file is being obsoleted.

 [ There's also a third problem which is that gnome-vfs doesn't properly
 deal with MIME types aliases, but this is still unclear. ]

 I'm duplicating your bug to record the problem in Debian, but it is
 already reported upstream (in GNOME) and its upstream
 (freedesktop.org).  See:
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153781
 http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1606

   Regards,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>