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 STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Can you run `file --mime-type [path to file]` on one of the files that isn't getting indexed, and paste the output here?
terminal returns: This is a test.tmdx: application/octet-stream
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.
Thanks! I'll do that.