Public bug reported: This has been observed on Ubuntu 11.04 and 12.04 (so it probably also occurs in 11.10).
An R script (http://www.r-project.org/) is a text file with the extension ".R". If the file starts with a comment (the first line starts with "##") - which is very common for source code - the file type listed in Nautilus is "MATLAB script/function". This is annoying given that R can be seen as competitor to MATLAB. If the file doesn't start with "##", it is identified as "plain text document", which is not really specific, but also not wrong. I would suggest to identify text files as "MATLAB script/function" only if they have the appropriate extension ".m". This should also solve bug #319533. Further, it would be nice to add a file type for "R script". ** Affects: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040050 Title: R script misidentified as MATLAB script/function To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/1040050/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
