| Summary: | Remove *.bin from application/octet-stream | ||
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| Product: | shared-mime-info | Reporter: | David Faure <faure> |
| Component: | freedesktop.org.xml | Assignee: | Shared Mime Info group <shared_mime_info> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | AntonioJPFernandes+b.fd.o, bugseforuns, dark.shadow4 |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571377 | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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Description
David Faure
2017-07-01 12:26:13 UTC
(In reply to David Faure from comment #0) > Since the first glob is often used as the default extension when saving, > having "*.bin" in application/octet-stream leads to file dialogs > automatically adding a ".bin" extension when apps try to have some "all > files" filter. > > In addition I see no purpose in this glob for matching (given that > application/octet-stream is the fallback anyway). application/octet-stream isn't the same as "any" mime-type though, is it? I don't know the side-effects it could have on the detection, or the negative detection of the mime-types that do use *.bin as a glob, depending on the implementation. This bug affects nautilus via gio's function g_content_type_can_be_executable. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571377 (In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #1) > I don't know the side-effects it could have on the detection, or the > negative detection of the mime-types that do use *.bin as a glob, depending > on the implementation. Currently, if we rename a files to remove the .bin extension, it's type can be detected more precisely. By classifying *.bin as octet-stream, the more precise detection seems to be bypassed. To test, add ".bin" to the name of an "application/x-executable" file. It becomes "application/octet-stream". As a consequence, it's no longer identified as potentially executable by g_content_type_can_be_executable. While this test is artificial, there are real applications shipped with a *.bin binary mean to be launched[*]. This becomes an actual user-facing bug in a file manager. [*] Yes, this is wrong and they should use .desktop files and ship a proper .flatpak bundle for instance. But it's just an example. Done in 009f22a. |
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