GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 403435
Generic compressed file support (.pdf.gz, .dvi.bz2, etc.)
Last modified: 2007-02-02 09:43:59 UTC
cvs shared-mime-info (post-0.19) has application/x-bzpostscript, application/x-gzpdf, application/x-bzpdf MIME types. Evince should support these; it's just a matter of adding them to libdocument/ev-document-factory.c.
checkin: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/mime/shared-mime-info/freedesktop.org.xml.in?view=log#rev1.180 ooh, dvi as well... will we be able to cope with that?
Created attachment 81730 [details] [review] extra-compressed-types.patch Well, this adds the {bz,gz}{pdf,postscript} types, but the dvi backend doesn't know how to uncompress files. This should really be handled above the level of the backends, I guess.
Oops, pdf backend doesn't know how to handle compressed files either. Not much point just adding .ps.bz2 support; I'll make this bug a generic compressed request. This will become important when shared-mime-info 0.20 comes out, because the current accidental workaround of going via file-roller will stop working.
Thanks Ed, that question was discussed earlier though. Actually I am a bit against of handling gzipped dvi and gzipped tiff. What else format should we support on earth. It should be nautilus task. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307087 ***