Description of problem: The MimeType= line in /usr/share/applications/fedora-abiword.desktop mentions "application/vnd.ms-word", but not "application/msword". Therefore, double-clicking an MS Word document (*.doc file) in nautilus does not open abiword, even if abiword is the only word processor installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abiword-2.4.2-7.fc5 shared-mime-info-0.17-1.fc5.1 nautilus-2.14.0-1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure abiword is installed, but no other word processor. 2. Double-click on a MS Word document in nautilus. Actual results: A dialog with an error message like the following is displayed: Couldn't display "/home/levin/foo.doc". Expected results: The file is opened in abiword. Additional info: As far as I can tell, the correct file type for MS Word documents is "application/msword" (see here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword). This is also what /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml assigns to *.doc files. After I replaced "application/vnd.ms-word" with "application/msword" in /usr/share/applications/fedora-abiword.desktop and ran # update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications , nautilus opened word documents with abiword. I've attached a path with this change, although it's kinda trivial.
Created attachment 127229 [details] make /home/levin/fedora-abiword.desktop.patch use the correct mime type for MS Word documents
Thanks, fixed upstream; will be in the next release.