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Bug 45445 - Applications cannot extend the gnome vfs mime magic table
Applications cannot extend the gnome vfs mime magic table
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME and file/program mapping
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Rebecca Schulman
Rebecca Schulman
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-01-04 21:45 UTC by Rebecca Schulman
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Rebecca Schulman 2001-09-10 00:53:39 UTC 



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-01-05 17:12:40 ----

On the table for 1.0.  Do we need to do this for StarOffice and other such
applications?




------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-01-25 15:45:04 ----

This would be "nice" to fix for 1.0.1.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:53 -------
Bug depends on bug(s) 45443.
Comment 1 Hongli Lai 2004-05-04 18:33:37 UTC 
This bug is quite old. Will it ever be fixed? My application creates files that
have a script as stub and binary data as payload. Nautilus/gnome-vfs detects it
as a shell script but I want to override that. Currently there's no way to do
that, not even with the freedesktop.org MIME spec's magic priority tag.

This has forced me to associate my program with application/x-sh(ellscript),
which checks whether the file really is a shell script. It is a rather ugly hack.
Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-12-09 15:40:18 UTC 
Since we dont allow applications to edit mime types anymore I dont think this
bug make much sense in gnome-vfs at this point. It could make sense to file a
freedesktop bug with a proposal on how to allow this...