Re: Can someone confirm that the new odt file format for OOo in rawhide is not getting the correct mime associations?

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On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:15 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:46 -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:26 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > My gnome desktop running nautilus is not automagically associated
> > > openoffice as an application to use for these files. In fact the only
> > > application nautilus associates for me is archive manager.
> > > 
> > > Can someone confirm this?
> > 
> > Yes, I can confirm this,  .odt files are associated with archive manager
> > here too.
> 
> This actually makes a strange sort of sense (but will need to be
> addressed).  Because the OpenDocument (.odt, etc) files are actually a
> bunch of xml (and other bits) wrapped in a dot-zip file, and the mime
> type handler for Gnome sniffs the file to see what sort of file it is,
> it's understandable that Nautilus (et al) would pick this up as a
> archive style file (and want to open it in file-roller).
> 
> Caolan, do you need someone to file a bug report for this, or have you
> got it listed already?

Yeah, it's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=150546 

C.


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