GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 598044
"Open this file" dialogue identifies everything as "Unknown"
Last modified: 2009-10-27 12:20:18 UTC
Hi, I never get the option to "Open" a file about to be downloaded from the dialogue window. All files are identified as "Unknown". Directly opening downloaded files by setting "Automatically download and open files" still works fine. For example the torrent in http://www.mininova.org/tor/3001695 File Type: “Unknown”. You have no application able to open “Stayin Alive in JoBurg [documentary] [mininova].torrent”. You can download it instead. From reading bug 576788 it's not clear if this is supposed to work, or still a work in progress?
I can reproduce it with several extensions, such as PDF, ODS, XLS. For instance: http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/gnome-foundation-fiscal-year-2007.pdf http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/GNOME-Donations.ods
This is a limitation in webkit it seems. The code to detect mime types for this dialogs simply doesn't exist at this moment: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/epiphany/tree/embed/ephy-embed.c?h=gnome-2-28&id=b93c0ee2b3db46db54b6ae45909fb8b5f54d9f4c#n635
This is fixed already. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 598167 ***