Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: fontforge
Fontforge saves its internal format in files with .sfd extensions.
Nautilus identifies these files as "text/plain" and wants to open them
with Gedit or whatever your default text editor is. I can add Fontforge
to the "Open With" menu using Nautilus, but right clicking on a file
quickly becomes a royal pain when you're using Fontforge with any
regularity.
.sfd files are created only by Fontforge and opened only by Fontforge,
so I think that when Fontforge is installed it should automatically be
set up such that double-clicking on .sfd files opens them in Fontforge
by default.
Since Nautilus identifies .sfd files as "text/plain," if I make
Fontforge the default, I end up with a situation where double-clicking
on any "text/plain" files in Nautilus opens them in Fontforge, which is
also not correct.
In addition, Fontforge should appear as one of the options (but probably
not the default) in the "Open with..." menu in Nautilus for .ttf
(application/x-font-ttf), .otf (application/x-font-otf), .pfb, .pfa, and
other font format files, since it can open files of those types.
I tried to fix this by fooling around with mime-types, but the Nautilus
mime-type set-up is byzantine and I haven't been able to find very good
documentation. Hopefully someone with more experience than I can fix
this.
** Affects: fontforge (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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no mime-types for fontforge
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86115
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