Bug 3489

Summary:	better handling of application/x-mswinurl (*.URL)
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Thilo Pfennig <thilopfennig>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Thilo Pfennig 2005-06-07 06:48:47 UTC

A link that is saved via Internet Explorer (*.URL) can not be handled with
GNOME. This is stupid somehow because these files are really simple and
standardized. A browser could easily open such file.

The files are regognized but can not be opened in any way. Even gedit does not
like them. So there is no way for the user to read the information. This should
never happen.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2005-11-01 03:38:57 UTC

There's already a mime-type for this type of file:
  <mime-type type="application/x-mswinurl">
    <magic priority="50">
      <match type="string" value="InternetShortcut" offset="1"/>
    </magic>
  </mime-type>

If your applications can't use it, please file a bug directly against the
applications.

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