GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 78045
.wav files match as riff files which confuses users
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Using Beta 3 on Solaris Sparc 8 Open Nautilus, double click on any *.wav file, Nautilus complains it has "no installed viewer capable of displaying <filename>.wav" Using the control center there are also errors when attempting to set up a default application for *.wav files. Open control center - advanced - file types and programs. In the file types and Internet services dialog, selct Audio, a list of audio type files is displayed. Click on "wave audio .wav" and select edit. In the Edit file type dialog, select:- default action - custom program to execute - /usr/dt/bin/sdtaudio, select ok in the edit file type dialog select apply in the file types and internet services dialog select close in the file types and internet services dialog In the control center select - advanced - file types and programs. In the file types and internet services dialog there is now an extra entry beneath "Audio" named "udio" . The file type listing "wave audio .wav" has been moved from "Audio" into "udio". It is possible to move the wave audio lising back into the Audio list by editing the "wave audio .wav" listing and putting it in category "AAudio" ( note the AA). After completing these ations attempting to play a type *.wav file through Nautilus still yields the same error.
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The compression of 'audio' to 'udio' is bug 78169. Not sure if fixing that fixes this or not, though. Can you check this out, Jody?
This /should/ be fixed in CVS; tentatively adding the dependency and asking everyone involved to update the status of the bug.
The leading character droppage is fixed. Can we close this ?
1. Tested with build from 21st April on Solaris, compression problem is fixed. 2. After setting file types and programs to select /usr/dt/bin/sdtaudio as a custom program to execute for *.wav type files, Nautilus still complains it has no installed viewer capable of displaying file. Further it is not possible to right click on a .wav file and select an application, Nautilus returns with error "No applications are available for <filename>.wav"
Created attachment 7926 [details] Solaris Applications for /opt/gnome-2.0/share/application-registry
"File types and Programs" doesn't work, but I was able to manually added these Solaris applications to the application-registry directory as solaris-gnome2.0.applications. This makes three Solaris applications available under the "Open With" menu for some Mime types.
Quite possibly a duplicate of bug 75620?
I suspect that this is a bug in the mime data base rather than the application. When trying this with a .wav file it is mime sniffed as audio/x-riff when you edit the .wav file nothing happens because from nautilus' perspective it is not a wav file. Your manually editing application registry appears to fix things because you also add support for audio/x-riff. It seems like people are more likely to associate a wav file with wav than riff. The solution here is likely to just move the wav tests ahead of the riff test in gnome-vfs
Retriaging a bit and reopening. Alex, can you please take a look at this? should be an easy fix for you...
Fixed in CVS, as per jody's suggestion.
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