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Bug 576360 - OTF is a font format
OTF is a font format
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME and file/program mapping
unspecified
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-23 08:51 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2009-03-24 10:45 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2009-03-23 08:51:47 UTC 
The gnome mime database thinks OTF files are some kind of ODF file (as documented in the ODF spec).

However the OTF extension has long been used for OpenType fonts with CFF data, and there are many more OTF font files in the wild and even in linux distributions than OTF ODF files.

Therefore the default should be switched to font file.

Even OO.o uses the OTF moniker for font files
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43029
Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2009-03-24 10:45:44 UTC 
gnome uses the freedesktop shared mime database these days.

If this is not fixed in that database, please file a bug at:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=shared-mime-info