On 7/26/05, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grr. I've hated the 'these file types are mismatched' 'security'dialog > for a long time, because it is totally uninformative, gives a lot of > false positives, and makes it totally unclear how one is supposed to > recover from the error. I've finally found a case where it actually > *forces* me to use the terminal, though, which makes me hate it even > more. > > Situation: > * docbook extension is .xml > * install attached 'docbook.xml' in /usr/share/mime/packages/, run > 'update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/', kill gnome-vfs-daemon, and > restart nautilus. > * drop test.xml into, say, ~/Desktop/ > * right click on properties of test.xml, note that (pleasurably) your > file is shown to be docbook, though you likely don't have any > docbook-specific handlers. > * double-click on the file. > * get the error message from hell, even though the file (1) has the > correct extension and (2) is properly sniffed by the properties > dialog. > > So... can we please finally kill this dialog? :) At the very least, it > has to be fixed to be able to accept that some extensions can be > multiple types of file. > > Luis (and yes, I'll add these details to the bug, but it has been > getting ignored a long time.)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310082 is actually the oldest bug on the subject I can find, though I could *swear* there is one a couple years older. luis -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
