Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-21 Thread mond
On Feb 20, 10:50 am, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > mond wrote: > >> On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. > >>> That's actually a good th

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: > mond wrote: >> On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. >>> That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about >>> .desktop "viruse

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mond wrote: > On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>> Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. >> That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about >> .desktop "viruses". However, shouldn't gnome

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-19 Thread mond
On Feb 19, 7:30 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. > > That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about > .desktop "viruses". However, shouldn't gnome fallback to file magic > test if extension test fails? > > --

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-19 Thread mond
On Feb 19, 6:20 pm, Daryl Styrk wrote: > mond wrote: > > Hi, > > > Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. > > For example, I have a .odt file but gnome fails to open it with > > openoffice writer. So every time I want to open .odt file I have to > > use "open with o

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. That's actually a good thing if you've been reading the thread about .desktop "viruses". However, shouldn't gnome fallback to file magic test if extension test fails? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-19 Thread Daryl Styrk
mond wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. > For example, I have a .odt file but gnome fails to open it with > openoffice writer. So every time I want to open .odt file I have to > use "open with other application" option. It is annoying. Gnome als

Gnome open can not recognize a file by its name

2009-02-19 Thread mond
Hi, Recently, my gnome failed to recognize any file by its name extension. For example, I have a .odt file but gnome fails to open it with openoffice writer. So every time I want to open .odt file I have to use "open with other application" option. It is annoying. Gnome also fails to display the c