Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137355
inconsistancy in mime handling
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:53 EST
Description of problem: right click on a .doc file shows three choices for apps: emacs text editor oowriter Preferences on same file, open with: emacs text editor Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.8.1-4 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a "rich text doc" and name it with a .doc extension 2. right click on the file will show three open options 3. prefs, open with will show two. Seems to me two different code paths. If you rename the file to .rtf it will show just the two choices in both places.
So, there are two problems here: 1 Nautilus add both fast/slow mime type application to the context menu, that can be useful in case of mismatches. Doing the same for the properties dialog would be totally confusing because you can edit the types there. So it's useful VS possibly confusing (inconsistency). Alex think we should pick useful here, I agree. 2 The desktop file we install for OOwriter uses text/rtf instead of application/rtf like the freedesktop database. With that fixed oowrite would be showed in properties too.
So I'm reassigning to Open Office. We should use application/rtf in oowriter desktop file, like the freedesktop database. If there was a good reason to use text/rtf please let me know and I'll get the freedesktop database fixed.
caolanm->snickell: remove that text/rtf from redhat-word-processor.desktop from redhat-menus please and replace it with application/rtf if that's not already in the list
Looking at FC6/FC7, the oowriter desktop file that we ship nowadays has application/rtf in it. So I assume this is fixed.