Bug 5974

Summary:	application/x-ms-dos-executable should be a sub-class of application/x-executable
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Elie Morisse <lachienne>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Elie Morisse 2006-02-21 05:38:25 UTC

Actually gnome-vfs has some problems to detect Windows executables as potentiel
executables, they are categorized application/x-ms-dos-executable and e.g
Nautilus refuses to launch them with wine and binfmt_misc. I looked a bit the
gnome-vfs code and it seems that only text files and application/x-executable
objects ( or sub-objects ) are considered as potential executables, so i had to
modify freedesktop.org.xml to make wine and binfmt_misc work.
The "magic priority" and "glob pattern" fields of x-ms-dos-executable type are
also in x-executable node, so i think it would not cost any disagreement to put
x-ms-dos-executable as a sub-class of application/x-executable

Cheers!

Comment 1 Christian - Manny Calavera - Neumair 2006-02-21 08:07:37 UTC

Thanks for your bug report!

I agree with you that application/x-ms-dos-executable should be made a
application/x-executable subclass, but first I'd like to know how it can be
ensured that binfmt_misc spports both wine and mono applications, so that we
don't break anything previously working.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2008-06-11 11:09:46 UTC

The bug should be filed against nautilus to allow application/x-ms-dos-executable to be executable instead.

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