On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 20:31 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> When no MIME type is found to match for the contents sniff of a file and
> the buffer looks like text, "text/plain" is assumed. When the
> subclassing information isn't correct (for instance, the current
> shared-mime-info release 0.17 doesn't have "text/plain" =>
> "application/pdf" associations), this will make the contents sniff take
> precedence over the extension and for instance evince can't handle the
> file, and Nautilus will bail when activating the file.
> I therefore propose to always return XDG_MIME_TYPE_UNKNOWN if the result
> can't be determined.
A pdf sniffed as text? That sounds strange.
Anyway, I think this sounds wrong. We'll detect far less text files if
we do this, meaning you'll be unable to open them instead. Getting the
mime info fixed seems like a better solution.
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