Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 117536
Nautilus misdetects Excel files as Word files
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:37 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 Epiphany/1.1.9 Description of problem: When I double click on MS Excel spreadsheets in nautilus, it tells me that the file is of type "Microsoft Word Document" and the extension is of type Microsoft Excel spreadsheet." I have to use open with to open up the file in gnumeric, and after doing so gnumeric reads the file fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.5.8-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Browse to xls file 2. Double click xls file Actual Results: Receive message informing me that the file type and extension do not match Expected Results: Nautilus should have spawned an appropriate viewer Additional info:
this is fixed in upstream cvs (shared-mime-data and gnome-vfs)
Well, that's what I have heard too but it's actually still not working for me. System started at FC2test2, updated via up2date to current rawhide (2004-04-30) shared-mime-data-0.14-1 gnome-vfs-1.0.5-18 Matching bug at freedesktop.org for shared-mime-info is #401: http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=401
Time to eat some crow. Regenerating the mime info cache with update-mime-database fixed it (I first didn't realize that I had to log out and log in to get Nautilus to pick this up but that seems to be the case). The post-install scriptlet appears to do this so I don't really know why it didn't work before; perhaps there was an SELinux problem that rpevented this from happening correctly while I was running that (I gave up for now). My apologies!