Bug 9859

Summary: application/mbox should be a sub-class of text/plain?
Product: shared-mime-info Reporter: Sebastien Bacher <seb128>
Component: freedesktop.org.xmlAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: bugzilla
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-02-03 02:32:52 UTC 
That problem has been described on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/83001

"Nautilus 2.17.90 refuses to open certain text files, claiming:

"Error: no application found
Cannot open /home/me/file.txt: No application is known for this kind of file."

A test case:
echo "From Dostoevsky:" > test1.txt
echo "In Dostoevsky:" > test2.txt

Nautilus correctly opens test2.txt but not test1.txt.

I'm using amd64 Feisty with LANG=en-US.UTF-8."


That's because the file starting by "From " is detected as application/mbox and there is no editor associated to it. Maybe it would make sense to sub-class the type with text/plain so text editor would be happy to open it?
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-02-05 03:28:39 UTC 
2007-02-05  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * freedesktop.org.xml.in: Make mbox a sub-class of text/plain
        so that a text-editor can be used to open it (Closes: #9859)

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