Bug 262696

Summary:	Mimetype problem for fictionbook downloads.
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Christian Trippe <christiandehne>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Christian Trippe 2011-01-09 21:03:32 UTC

Version:           0.5.81 (using KDE 4.5.95) 
OS:                Linux

I tried viewing a fictionbook from http://manybooks.net/titles/vernejul3351633516-8.html

Choosing download for the FictionBook2, I get a dialog which tells me it is of mimetype: application/x-fictionbook

And gives the options to save it or choose an application to open it with.
Choosing okular there works fine.
The other way downloading it and trying to open it locally also works. There it even launches okular directly. But locally it says it has the Mimetype: application/x-fictionbook-xml.
Please note the additional "xml".

IMHO it would be nice the other mimetype which is reported when trying to open it directly would also be supported.

I found a somehow related report: bug 233301

Reproducible: Always




OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37-default
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2011-01-14 00:29:26 UTC

Okular does not define the mimetypes so it's not something we can fix. You might want to open a bug against the shared-mime-info database http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info

Thanks for using Okular :-)

Comment 2 Christian Trippe 2011-01-14 21:31:26 UTC

Thanks for the feedback. For reference I reported this at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33133

And thanks for okular!

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2011-01-14 21:50:52 UTC

No, shared-mime-info >= 0.60 provides application/x-fictionbook+xml, which is the proper name, while the local kde.xml (provided by kdelibs) provides application/x-fictionbook, which is used by okular.

The fix is making okular use the proper mime type, I'll do that in a moment.

Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2011-01-14 21:58:00 UTC

Hm, actually okular uses already the right mimetype.
Christian, which version of shared-mime-info do you have installed? And kdelibs and okular?

Comment 5 Christian Trippe 2011-01-14 22:05:54 UTC

I use KDE 4.6 RC2 and shared-mime-info-0.71.

Comment 6 Pino Toscano 2011-01-14 22:21:43 UTC

Hm ok. I understand now, the shared-mime-info mimetype needs an alias, for because of the mimetype reported by the server (sigh).