Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427488
xdg-mime quits too easily when determining MIME type of file
Last modified: 2008-04-27 11:27:33 EDT
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.
See also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13919.
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.
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.