Bug 427488 - xdg-mime quits too easily when determining MIME type of file
Summary: xdg-mime quits too easily when determining MIME type of file
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xdg-utils
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-04 05:29 UTC by W. Michael Petullo
Modified: 2008-04-27 15:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-27 15:27:33 UTC
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Description W. Michael Petullo 2008-01-04 05:29:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Unix traditionally looks at the contents of a file instead of just its extension
when determining a file's MIME type. The xdg-mime utility does not do this -- it
seems to only look at the file's extension. This limits its usefulness.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xdg-utils-1.0.2-2.fc8

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
xdg-mime xdg-mime query filetype /etc/passwd
  
Actual results:
Program prints "application/octet-stream"

Expected results:
Should print "text/plain"

Additional info:
Adding the "--slow-mime" option to xdg-mime's use of gnomevfs-info solves this
problem.

Comment 1 W. Michael Petullo 2008-01-04 05:38:58 UTC
See also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13919.

Comment 2 Patrice Dumas 2008-04-27 13:56:15 UTC
I don't see that on rawhide. I get:

$ xdg-mime query filetype /etc/passwd
text/plain charset=us-ascii

I am under fluxbox with perl-File-MimeInfo installed.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2008-04-27 15:27:33 UTC
Same here (in a DE-less terminal), could be gnomevfs-info simply returning the 
wrong result here.

Wrt to use of --slow-mime.  If you think that should be the default, I'd argue 
1. you make that case with the maintainer of gnomevfs-info
2.  make the case with xdg-utils upstream (which you already did).  I'm 
hesitant to diverge from upstream behavior here (yet).

Closing->Upstream, we'll continue to track this there.


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