On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:02:16 +0200, J�r�me Warnier wrote: > Hello, I'm using up-to-date Debian Sarge and notice the following > "problem": my .doc documents are not longer recognized by Nautilus as > application/msword, but as application/vnd.ms-word, which leads to the > fact that no application or icon is associated with it, while > application/msword are.
The correct MIME type for Word files is application/msword (see http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword), unlike several other Microsoft formats (e.g. Excel) which had their MIME types assigned after the introduction of the "vnd.*" convention. shared-mime-info's /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml is wrong in this regard; an upstream bug report covering this issue already exists: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=673 Ray -- Scary piece of history: `The very first use of Unix in the "real business" of Bell Labs was to type and produce patent applications' Dennis Ritchie in http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html
