From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030918 Galeon/1.3.10 Description of problem: Hello. Fedora Core 2, no special setting. Gnome 2.6 Openoffice 1.1.1 (but I don't think it's important) The problem is that if I go to Red Hat -> Recent Documents -> foobar.sxw it opens flawlessly. Same scenario, Red Hat -> Recent Documents -> barfoo.xls I get: Cannot open recently used document Details: Couldn't find a suitable application It affects .xls files only. In the extensions association the .xls files are correctly listed as to be opened by Openoffice, and if I open a .xls file in any other way (double click on a .xls file on the desktop f.e.) it works perfectly. Please let me know should you need further infos. Please also note that this problem has been reported by another person on Sun formus, also. See: http://supportforum.sun.com/sjds/index.php?t=msg&goto=805&rid=0#msg_805 Cheers, Piero Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create or locate an old .xls file 2. Open it in OOffice, then exit 3. It appears in recently used files list 4. Try and open the file from the recently used file list 5. Boom: cannot open .... Actual Results: .xls files cannot be opened from recently used files list even if their association to OOffice is correct Expected Results: .xls files should be opened from recently used files list when their association to OOffice is correct. Additional info: For joe users trying to switch from a proprietary system where this works, it's an annoyance.
(Guessing the problem is in gnome-mime-data)
This still occurs in FC3.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Tested it myself and it works for me on more recent systems (FC6 and RHEL4). Considering that there has been no response to the previous request for information, closing per previous comment.