GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 522636
Opens playlist files with the wrong program
Last modified: 2008-09-14 15:22:30 UTC
Please describe the problem: Visiting <http://cdbaby.com/cd/woolson> and clicking the 'play all songs' button causes epiphany to pop up a dialog box offering to open the downloaded file with Serpentine (a CD burner). However, I expected Totem to be used to open the playlist. If I save the playlist file and then look at its properties, under the Open With tab, "movie player" (that is, Totem) is selected. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Whatever the problem is, I doubt that it's Epiphany. For me, Totem is opened after downloading that m3u file (URL: http://cdbaby.com/allmp3/woolson.m3u, MIME type: audio/x-mpegurl)
I guess the problem was that I didn't have Totem associated with that mime type. The bug is that the only way to do so is to save the file to disk, then find it in nautilus, right click on it, access its properties, and then set the default program to open it from within there. There really needs to be a user interface to do this from within the browser. At best, doing all that is really clunky and confusing for a user who does not understand file types, and is not familiar with where GNOME buries its settings for such things. At worst, it is simply impossible for the user to change this at all--consider the case where the web server transmits a file with a content-type header different from that which Nautilus picks for a file when saved to disk...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 539117 ***