Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome
Distro : Dapper (breezy does the same, too).
Given an arbitrary text based document it is not possible to assign an
application to open the file with based only on the document file extension.
Simple example : DXF files. Theese files are text based. However, DXF should be
opened with qcad if it is installed, not with an editor.Trying to manually
assign qcad to this type of file associates qcad with any plain text file. This
happens because if gnome recognizes a file based on its content, it absolutely
ignores the extension of the file. This would not be a problem on various
binary files where there is no confusion risk (zip, mp3, avi, etc). However the
actual trend is to use human readable files for documents (xml based for
example) and this creates more and more problems as users can't assign which
application should be used to open a certain type of document.
** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
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File type / Open with annoyance
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44811
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