| Summary: | Wishlist: xdg-mime/baloo should recognise user.mime_type extended attributes | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kfilemetadata | Reporter: | tagwerk19 |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | postix |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.84.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
SUMMARY: xdg-mime (and baloo) does not seem to recognise user.mime_type extended attributes. These are referenced as a "MAY" in: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/#generalattributesincurrentuse so request flagged as "wishlist" STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Create a test file with no recognised file extension, check the mime type with xdg-mime $ echo "Hello Penguin" > testfile.zzz $ xdg-mime query filetype testfile.zzz text/plain Assign a "preferred" mime_type with setfattr: $ setfattr -n user.mime_type -v "text/log" testfile.zzz Check with xdg-mime and balooshow -x OBSERVED RESULTS $ xdg-mime query filetype testfile.zzz text/plain $ balooshow -x testfile.zzz 13f8960000fc01 64513 1308822 testfile.zzz [/home/test/testfile.zzz] Mtime: 1628337068 2021-08-07T13:51:08 Ctime: 1628337804 2021-08-07T14:03:24 Cached properties: Line Count: 1 Internal Info Terms: Mplain Mtext T5 T8 X20-1 hello penguin File Name Terms: Ftestfile Fzzz XAttr Terms: lineCount: 1 EXPECTED RESULTS The mimetype is shown as "text/log" SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Neon Testing Plasma : 5.22.4 Frameworks : 5.85.0 Qt : 5.15.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This would be a way to override "misidentified" mimetypes as seen in Bug 440631 and Bug 440632