https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67617

--- Comment #4 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
I'm afraid that the fix for bug 64448 made more new problems than solved.

I would suggest to change that fix not to drop the data from "incorrect
filter", but instead to notify user that it is not a filetype that is expected;
that the program supposes that this is some other file type; and suggest to try
that guessed filter.

So, from the end-user perspective, there should be these cases when a file os
opening:
1. File is detected unambiguously: simply open it.
1.1. An error happens while loading: instead of uninformative "i/o error",
provide a more verbose information with a suggestion that this file is of some
other (unrecognized) type. It would be simply awesome if it then would provide
an option to send it for analisys, or use some (online) utility to detect etc.,
but it is a separate feature request.
2. File is detected as one type, but some filter claims that it is its type:
try the main filter, catch general i/o error, provide a warning and a choice to
try other detected filters.

Without this, this is a real problem for quite a number of users that receive
such files from others/from some (badly designed) programs. And this is the
regression from the UX perspective!

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