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Bug 709032 - Man pages are not recognized by desktop
Man pages are not recognized by desktop
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: Man Pages
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-09-29 11:47 UTC by Alec Leamas
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:03 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alec Leamas 2013-09-29 11:47:33 UTC 
It should be possible to see the manpages in yelp by clicking on them in nautilus, but it does not seem to work.

Narrowing down xdg-open e. g., /usr/share/man/man1/7za.1.gz opens it in file-roller, which might be acceptable. But opening the uncompressed file 7za.1 in file-roller opens the troff document in gedit, which isn't really useful.

This seem to be due to file type recognizing. /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml has a manpage definition "application/x-troff-man".
However, this is bound to *.man, an extension I've never seen used for a manpage (and even that does not work on my Fedora-19 clean install). There is also a "application/x-troff-man-compressed" type also unmatched.

All this means that the mime-type of a manpage is text, and that the default text viewer (gedit as distributed) is handling  it. This is a bug IMHO, viewing troff in a text tool does not make any end-user happy. 

I understand that this might not be a yelp bug as such, I just see it from a user perspective. It might certainly belong to another component, but I cant figure out which. On fedora, this is really about the shared-mime-info package.
Comment 1 Alec Leamas 2013-09-29 11:49:09 UTC 
Downstream fedora bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013339
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:03:43 UTC 
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