Bug 1606

Summary: mime type for word files is wrong
Product: shared-mime-info Reporter: Sebastien Bacher <seb128>
Component: freedesktop.org.xmlAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: lool
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Sebastien Bacher 2004-10-11 14:47:22 UTC 
the current type is "application/vnd.ms-word", according to
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword it should be
"application/msword".

This break the nautilus icon for word files:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153781
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2004-11-01 13:43:08 UTC 
application/msword is defined to be an alias for application/vnd.ms-word, so I
guess it should work, probably a gnome issue.
Comment 2 Loïc Minier 2004-11-01 13:47:37 UTC 
Yes, it is an alias, but first it is wrong that it is an alias (because the
official type is /msword, not /vnd.ms-word), and second gnomevfs doesn't deal
correctly with MIME aliases right now.

It's been 3 monthes that I get:
bee% gnome-open AVATAR-01.doc
Erreur à l'affichage de l'URL : Il n'y a pas de commande d'action associée à 
cet emplacement.

This really ought to be fixed, both in freedesktop and in gnomevfs.
Comment 3 Christophe Fergeau 2004-12-10 11:09:59 UTC 
I switched the main mime type and the alias in CVS, thanks for the report.

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