Bug 221144

Summary:	.doc mime type is plane text in /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Sasha Medvedev <Sasha.Medvedev>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	faure, Sasha.Medvedev
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Sasha Medvedev 2010-01-03 20:01:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)
Compiler:          gcc 4.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I use thunar as file manager and some kde applications. I can't use different programs for my .doc and .txt files because of it is both plain text type in /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml. So can developers change .doc type to msword or something else?

Comment 1 David Faure 2010-01-08 17:28:04 UTC

This report oversimplifies the issue. *.doc is associated to _both_ text/plain and application/msword, so that the actual mimetype is determined based on the contents of the file.

Please check if "kmimetypefinder myfile.doc" finds the right mimetype for your .doc file. If that's the case, then it's a bug in thunar, which doesn't implement the resolution of conflicting globs properly (== as per the shared-mime-info standard).

Comment 2 Sasha Medvedev 2010-01-09 00:49:16 UTC

Thanks for reply. It really thunar bug, I've just found it: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6015.
kmimetypefinder myfile.doc works fine.