Bug 75014

Summary: desktop-file-utils conflicts with gnumeric
Product: desktop-file-utils Reporter: Pacho Ramos <pachoramos1>
Component: generalAssignee: Hans Petter Jansson <hpj>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Pacho Ramos 2014-02-15 10:25:22 UTC
We get this when running desktop-file-validate:
      /usr/share/applications/gnumeric.desktop: warning: value
"application/x-gnumeric;application/vnd.ms-excel;application/excel;application/msexcel;application/x-excel;application/x-ms-excel;application/x-msexcel;application/x-xls;application/xls;application/x-dos_ms_excel;zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;application/tab-separated-values;text/csv;text/x-csv;text/spreadsheet;text/tab-separated-values;application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3;application/x-123;application/vnd.sun.xml.calc;application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template;application/x-applix-spreadsheet;application/x-mps;application/x-oleo;application/x-planperfect;application/x-quattropro;application/x-sc;application/x-sylk;application/x-dbase;application/x-dbf;application/x-xbase;"
for key "MimeType" in group "Desktop Entry" contains value
"zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls" which is a MIME type that should probably not
be used: "zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls" should be replaced with
"application/vnd.ms-excel"

But gnumeric upstream thinks that desktop-file-utils should be fixed instead to allow them:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619303#c14
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2014-02-15 12:17:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> But gnumeric upstream thinks that desktop-file-utils should be fixed instead
> to allow them:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619303#c14

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619303#c12

I really believe it should not be needed to have this in the .desktop file.
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2014-02-15 12:46:59 UTC
But, per the next comments, looks like they want to keep it more time :|, not sure how to unblock the situation :(
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2014-02-15 13:20:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> But, per the next comments, looks like they want to keep it more time :|,
> not sure how to unblock the situation :(

Then we just stay the way it is. It's a warning, not an error, so it's not fatal.
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2015-09-18 09:50:44 UTC
Sorry for the noise, reassigning to new maintainer.
Comment 5 Hans Petter Jansson 2016-05-11 22:09:28 UTC
Bug 41286 contains more background for this bug.
Comment 6 Hans Petter Jansson 2016-05-12 18:45:37 UTC
The Gnumeric team decided the shared-mime-info alias has been around for long enough that they could remove the legacy Media Type from their desktop file. Problem solved, thanks to the work Vincent, Hans de G. & co put in previously.

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