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Re: [trinity-users] Mimetype problems with r14

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 17:51:54 +0100
On Sunday 20 of December 2015 17:18:09 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 20 December 2015 11:10:39 Slávek Banko wrote:
> > On Friday 18 of December 2015 15:10:38 Kate Draven wrote:
> > > As you may have guess, I found a mimetype problem for any trinity
> > > applications.
> > >
> > > I just found out that k3b for trinity cannot open/recognize its own
> > > saved projest files/mimetypes (just like chalk doesn't). However k3b
> > > for kde4 could and that was the clue.
> > >
> > > Install chalk and try to open a template. Or create and save a
> > > project with k3b for trinity. See if they work.  I don't think it
> > > will. I'm not jumping to the conclusion that I'm right. However I
> > > have seen this across 29 machines so far.
> > >
> > > The reason, I think, for that is because these mimetypes are for
> > > kde4 (best way I can explain it). I can open k3b saved projects in
> > > k3b for kde4, but not in k3b for trinity. The mimetype designs for
> > > kde3 / 4 are not compatible with r14. These appears randomly
> > > throughout the gui, for example kword cannot open an rtf anymore etc
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > As I dig deeper I'm finding more of this. I can do work arounds but
> > > they're ugly and not sustainable.
> > >
> > > These problems only relate to trinity and does not affect gtk or
> > > others.
> > >
> > > Please let know what all of find.
> > >
> > > When I have time I'll try to file a bug report.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Kate
> >
> > Kate, thank you! You were assisted by unveiling a small but annoying
> > regressions in class KZip. See bug 2562:
> >
> > http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2562
>
> Humm, now I wonder if this is the reason squeeze refused to open a .gz
> file yesterday. That error message is nearly if not identical to what I
> got.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

This relates only to zip files.
It should not apply to gzip.

-- 
Slávek