Bug 445147

Summary:	Index TMDX content
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo	Reporter:	noticon
Component:	general	Assignee:	baloo-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description noticon 2021-11-08 04:02:05 UTC

SUMMARY
Won't index content of TMDX files from Softmaker's Office Suite, specifically Textmaker, the word processor. I assume the same of the rest of the office suite, such as Presenter and PlanMaker. No doubt, this is because TMDX is a non-standard format, but it is a text format. I reached out to Softmaker, and they said to reach out to you. I know, it's probably a run-around, but could you please look into this? :D

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-11-09 14:29:42 UTC

Can you run `file --mime-type [path to file]` on one of the files that isn't getting indexed, and paste the output here?

Comment 2 noticon 2021-11-09 14:33:57 UTC

terminal returns:
This is a test.tmdx: application/octet-stream

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-11-09 14:37:37 UTC

Well, that's the problem. It's actually not a text file, or at least it doesn't tell the system it's a text file. It tells the system it's binary content. And Baloo avoids indexing these.

If these files really are text, then this is a bug in the file format itself. The correct solution would be one of the following:
1. Correct the error in the file structure that causes the system to mis-identify it as binary content rather than text
2. Submit a patch to shared-mime-info (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/) to make it aware of this file format, so that it identifies the files as some type of text file rather than a binary file.

Comment 4 noticon 2021-11-09 14:39:05 UTC

Thanks! I'll do that.