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Bug 154765 - Be more robust against applications setting empty mime types
Be more robust against applications setting empty mime types
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libegg
Classification: Other
Component: recent-files
unspecified
Other Linux
: High normal
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Assigned To: James Willcox
James Willcox
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-07 10:36 UTC by Mark McLoughlin
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (2.31 KB, patch)
2004-10-07 10:36 UTC, Mark McLoughlin 		none Details | Review

Description Mark McLoughlin 2004-10-07 10:36:15 UTC 
If an application puts <MimeType></MimeType> in ~/.recently-used, there's no
reason we can't try and detect the MIME type of the file ourself.

e.g. in Fedora atm, OpenOffice has a bug that causes it to do this with .xls files:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123018

Attaching a patch
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2004-10-07 10:36:44 UTC 
Created attachment 32323 [details] [review]
patch
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2004-11-10 09:14:16 UTC 
James?
Comment 3 James Willcox 2004-11-10 17:40:56 UTC 
Oops.  Yeah, the patch looks good.
Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2004-11-10 18:14:35 UTC 
Thanks