Bug 235628 - Virtualbox .vdi files are treated as plain-text files making it easy to accidentally overload system by opening with kate
Summary: Virtualbox .vdi files are treated as plain-text files making it easy to accid...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: kdecore (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Unspecified
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Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2010-04-28 14:41 UTC by Keith Hughitt
Modified: 2010-10-17 15:21 UTC (History)
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Description Keith Hughitt 2010-04-28 14:41:26 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Virtualbox hard-drive images (.vdi files) are often many Gigabytes. Because they are considered to be "plain-text" files by KDE/Dolphin, they are associated with Kate by default. Accidentally clicking such a file in Dolphin caused Kate to attempt to load the file resulting in a completely unresponsive system.

A better solution would be to either associate the files with Virtualbox, or to not give them any initial association.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-04-28 14:53:20 UTC 
shared-mime-info does not have an entry for vdi files, from what I can see. You could file an enhancement request to add this at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
Comment 2 Tanja Schulte 2010-10-17 15:21:32 UTC 
I guess that's not the correct way but as the mimetype configuration allows to add mimetype definitions I created my own "application/virtualbox-vdi" one with an icon that shows a harddisk on a sheet.