GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 587322
Text file changing content-type
Last modified: 2009-06-29 16:30:25 UTC
Please describe the problem: As I enter a space into the text file. The text file changes content-type for an unknown unexplainable reason and hence changes default launching software as well. In this case to Grapviz dot. Steps to reproduce: 1. Enter into gedit, "Automatically add <p> </p> aruond paragraphs of text, unless the paragraph" 2. Save 3. Add a space and save(it is now detected as a Graphviz dot file) Actual results: First when the file is saved it is detected as text After adding a space to the end of the line it is however detected as Graphviz dot Expected results: Keep being detected as a text file. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28490754/Screenshot-1.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28490767/Screenshot-2.png
This is not a problem in gedit but in the shared-mime-info. I found the following magic rule for graphiz dot files: <match value="graph " type="string" offset="0:256"/> Which nicely matches "... paragraph ". Please file a bug against shared-mime-info (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info)