Bug 493267

Summary:	Incorrect handling of QGIS .qgz as .zip
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	major	CC:	cwo.kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Henning 2024-09-17 14:44:04 UTC

In Dolphin, if I associate a .qgz file to open with QGIS, I get asked "set zip files to be opened with this app?"

The .qgz files are project archives of the QGIS geodata analysis program. They are probably compressed with zip, but should be a different file type.

not sure where this can be done.

Adding a file association manually didnt work, but I didnt log out yet.

https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/user_manual/appendices/qgis_file_formats.html#qgs-qgz-the-qgis-project-file-format

Fedora 40 Kinoite (KDE Atomic)
QGis 3.34.10

Comment 1 cwo 2024-09-18 13:58:30 UTC

Thank you for the bug report!

Applications should register their file types with the shared mime database (see https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/shared-mime-info-spec/) to have their file formats be recognized. This is also how it works for other file formats that are compressed, like odt.

I can see in the QGIS repository that the deb and rpm packaging materials do contain the required information (e.g. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/debian/qgis.xml). Given that you use Kinoite, I assume that you installed QGIS using Flatpak. In my testing, the Flatpak version of QGIS did not seem to properly install this file, while the distribution-provided deb package did. As soon as I installed this version, the file was recognized as a QGIS project file.

Please report this issue to the provider of your flatpak. (In case you installed this from flathub, that would be the QGIS flathub repository at https://github.com/flathub/org.qgis.qgis) so that this can be properly fixed. Thanks!