Bug 12989

Summary: MIME type for MS Works document
Product: shared-mime-info Reporter: Petr Mladek <pmladek>
Component: freedesktop.org.xmlAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: patch for freedesktop.org.xml.in
Microsoft Works Word Processor test document

Description Petr Mladek 2007-10-29 07:44:55 UTC 
OpenOffice.org is going to include import filter for MS Works documents. The Word documents are already partly supported by the Go-oo build, see http://go-oo.org/

Could you please add the MIME type definition to the system?

My proposal is:

  <mime-type type="application/vnd.ms-works">
    <comment>Microsoft Works document</comment>
    <glob pattern="*.wcm"/>
    <glob pattern="*.wdb"/>
    <glob pattern="*.wks"/>
    <glob pattern="*.wps"/>
    <glob pattern="*.wp"/>
  </mime-type>

You might see the following pages for more details:
http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp
http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/Microsoft%20Works%204.5%206-in-1/apa/apa.htm

I do not like that there is used the same MIME for various types of documents (word, spreadsheet, database) but...
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2008-04-10 02:14:53 UTC 
Isn't this word perfect files?
    <glob pattern="*.wp"/>

The rest looks alright. Could you please provide a test file, and give a patch against shared-mime-info?
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2008-04-21 07:01:54 UTC 
Created attachment 16074 [details] [review]
patch for freedesktop.org.xml.in

Patch without the *.wp glob (ambiguous).

Now, only a testcase is missing..
Comment 3 Petr Mladek 2008-04-21 07:41:36 UTC 
Created attachment 16075 [details]
Microsoft Works Word Processor test document

More test documents can be found in the libwps project svn, see http://libwps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libwps/trunk/reference/
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2008-04-21 07:53:59 UTC 
* freedesktop.org.xml.in: Add mime-type for MS Works
documents, patch from Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
(Closes: #12989)
* tests/list:
* tests/test.wps: Add test file for MS Works

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