Bug#507078: nautilus: fails to recognise mime type

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 27 novembre 2008 à 21:52 +0100, Bertrand Marc a écrit :
> Since the installation of Crossover Office, nautilus is unable to show 
> the mime type of office document. They all are of unknown type ("type inconnu" in french)
> in nautilus. As soon as I uninstall Crossover, everything comes 
> back to normal. The annoying thing is that I can't open these files with 
> a double-click, even with Open-office.
> 
> I want to be clear, I hesitated before sending this bug to nautilus. 
> Do not hesitate to reassign this bug, or tell me why I'm wrong. Two 
> things helped me to decide and send it as a nautilus bug:
> * This works perfectly in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 so it is not Crossover.
> * Iceweasel and Icedove detect office files right, and offer me to open 
> it with the right programs so I don't think it is a mime* bug, correct 
> me if I'm wrong.

This is definitely a bug in Crossover. For it to happen, it certainly
install files in /usr/share/mime/packages that break correct detection
of Office documents.

The reason why it doesn’t affect Ice* software is that a mailer and a
browser can obtain the MIME type directly from the server or the mail
contents, and don’t need to sniff the contents.

> Last thing I'd be happy to test it with a different version of nautilus. 

You will probably get the same result with any GNOME or XFCE software
that needs to detect MIME types.

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