https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103448
Bug ID: 103448
Summary: LibreOffice installs bad mimetype info for *.wps/*.wpt
files
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: filters and storage
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: kosse...@kde.org
/usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml registers <glob pattern="*.wpt"/> for
<mime-type type="application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroenabled.12"> and <glob
pattern="*.wps"/> for "<mime-type type="application/msword">.
which seems a result of https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/23037/
Which results in shadowing the info for MS Works files from freedesktop.org's
shared-mime-info and thus in the filemanager displaying all my old MS Works
files as MS Word ones and also offering the wrong handlers for it.
Are Kingsoft's formats really the same as the Microsoft ones? At least Kingsoft
themselves claim the formats are a different one. So registering *.wps & *.wpt
with the MS Word mimetypes is even wrong then.
Please create separate mimetype entries for the Kingsoft files (given they seem
not yet registered with iana.org/assignments/media-types/ perhaps some
application/x-whatever-seems-sane-or-used), best also register them with
https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info/
Even better would be to contact the Kingsoft developers and ask to register
their mimetypes officially with IANA.
The current approach in libreoffice.xml is a nice hack to register LibreOffice
as handler for those files, but is awful for everyone else relying on the
mimetype database :)
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