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Bug 59670 - App list should contain "open" actions
App list should contain "open" actions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME data
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Ian McKellar
Ian McKellar
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-08-28 11:25 UTC by Toralf Lund
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Test program (1.63 KB, text/x-c)
2001-08-28 11:26 UTC, Toralf Lund
Details
Test output (832 bytes, text/plain)
2001-08-28 11:34 UTC, Toralf Lund
Details
.keys file from abiword distribution (120 bytes, text/plain)
2001-08-28 11:37 UTC, Toralf Lund
Details

Description Toralf Lund 2001-08-28 11:25:27 UTC
Consider the test application and example output that will be attached shortly.

Questions:
1. Why isn't "AbiWord" returned as default application, or at least
included in application list, for text/abiword?
2. Why is application/x-abiword empty?

In addition to gnome-vfs.keys, I have installed the .keys file from Red
Hat's abiword distribution - I will attach that, too.

Possible answers:
1. AbiWord isn't included in the "shortlist" for the given mime type.
2. Same as for 1. + no applications in shortlist are found, and there is no
 other matching MIME type, so the entry is ignored completely. I'm assuming
the applications listed under text/abiword actually come from "text/*".

Comments:
This is really *BAD* as it means that all pre-gnome-vfs .keys files have to
be re-written, and possibly also that you can't really install new handlers
without updating gnome-vfs.keys.
Comment 1 Toralf Lund 2001-08-28 11:26:44 UTC
Created attachment 5010 [details]
Test program
Comment 2 Toralf Lund 2001-08-28 11:34:02 UTC
Created attachment 5011 [details]
Test output
Comment 3 Toralf Lund 2001-08-28 11:37:58 UTC
Created attachment 5012 [details]
.keys file from abiword distribution
Comment 4 Toralf Lund 2001-08-28 11:55:01 UTC
Regarding 2.: It looks like I misread the config files a bit here.
There is actually no "open" action (or "edit" or "view") for
application/x-abiword, as abiword.keys mentions text/abiword and
application/msword only. This probably means that the entry is empty
simply because nothing on the shortlist is found, or possibly because
the .mime entry is ignored (it's there, but exts: conflicts with a
different one.) I still think the current behaviour is wrong, though.

Also, the following example is also interesting:


# ./gnomevfs application/msword
application/msword:
		applix
		Default:applix
The AbiWord entry is ignored completely in this case, and not much
info from gnome-vfs.keys is included, either.

Comment 5 Christophe Fergeau 2003-07-18 12:52:08 UTC
Mass resetting target milestone to clean up gnome-vfs milestones. Please
complain if I removed a milestone which should have been kept. Sorry for the spam 
Comment 6 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-12-10 18:26:10 UTC
Things are a lot different at this time, but what is supposed to work about
these types seem to be working.