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Bug 338231 - Stopped recognising MIME types by file content
Stopped recognising MIME types by file content
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 336633
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME and file/program mapping
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
: 338228 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-12 15:11 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-04-12 21:10 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-04-12 15:11:30 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37448

"In warty (and possibly hoary), when I had a file without an extension, nautilus would look inside the file to determine its MIME type, and launch the appropriate application to view it when doubleclicked.

In breezy, this is not the case anymore. If I have (for example) a PDF or PostScript file without an extension, its type doesn't seem to get detected. The file HAS to have the proper file extension (.pdf or .ps)
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I've got the same problem. I named my postscript files .postscript and nautilus didn't register evince as app to view it.
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> Thanks for your bug. Are you trying to open them from a locale location?
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Assuming you mean 'local', then yes. I'm trying this on my desktop and in my homedir (both on local disk)"
Comment 1 Philip Van Hoof 2006-04-12 15:12:42 UTC
*** Bug 338228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Philip Van Hoof 2006-04-12 15:14:09 UTC
Summary of Bug 338228 and KDE bug 125342 (the duplicate): This problem is causing the kde-printing system's preview functionality to fail on GNOME desktops.
Comment 3 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2006-04-12 21:10:20 UTC
Postscript files and PDF files both start with "%" which means that this is really a DUP of 336633.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 336633 ***