GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 129833
MIME keys for MS Excel files
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
according to http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=XLS# I reccomend this patch for mime keys. Currently there is for sure problem with zz-winassoc-xls as it should be zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls, this patch fix it.
Created attachment 22637 [details] [review] patch
Created attachment 22662 [details] [review] sorry, this is what help recognize Excel files again with GNOME
Are you sure that second patch is correct ? It seems to just lobotomize all the uglier mime types.
yes, take a look that with this case you will get application/vnd.ms-excel for xls, xlw, xlt which is fine, and... gnome-mime-data support excact this mime entry, this is why it will work with the rest of gnome. If there is more than one entry for xls, xlw, xlt you'll get the last one which is not described (usage) anywhere, and you'll never get the rest of mimes so entries are IMHO not necessary. The other solution is to add identical descriptions as for application/vnd.ms-excel from gnome-mime-data package for every mime... but...no... you wont get them so there is no point... I stand with my patched proposition then. Comment welcome.
And if a web server serves an excel file with the common mime type application/x-ms-excel the Gnome browsers have no way to know that they should use gnumeric for that type. So I don't believe this to be an acceptable solution (for which problem?)
I'm hopeful that we solved this in 1.2.3 by adding the other mime types to gnumeric.keys.in and only lising the extensions for one mime type in gnumeric.mime