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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems a gio bug, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658188

IRC discussion:

" <mclasen> yeah
  as I said, at this point, I expect test cases to back up any purported 'fixes'
  the entire mime handling is too wobbly
 <mclasen> if that happens, it is a bug that should be demonstrated by a testcase
 <mclasen> there are existing testcases  for mime handling in gio that can be extended to show the problem"

** Package changed: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu) => glib2.0 (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #658188
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658188

** Also affects: glib via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658188
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Summary changed:

- libreoffice-writer not default file handler for .doc files
+ opening the system settings preferred application breaks those

** Also affects: glib2.0 (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: High
       Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: glib2.0 (Ubuntu Oneiric)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)

** Summary changed:

- opening the system settings preferred application breaks those
+ opening the system settings preferred application dialog breaks the defaults

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Title:
  opening the system settings preferred application dialog breaks the
  defaults

Status in The "G" Library - GLib:
  Unknown
Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “glib2.0” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In 11.10, gedit is the default file handler for .doc files. I expected
  the default handler to be libreoffice-writer, which is the default
  handler for .docx and other filetypes used by MS Office.

  gedit is pretty bad at opening .doc files (at least the ones I've
  tried). The effect on the user is that double-clicking a doc-file
  fails to display the file.

  To reproduce:
  * Double-click any .doc file

  Alternatively:
  In a terminal, 'touch foo.doc && touch foo.docx'
  Double-click each foo* file; foo.doc opens in gedit and foo.docs opens in LibreOffice.

  I believe this is a regression from 11.04; I first noticed it after
  upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 beta 1.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: desktop-file-utils 0.18-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep 19 14:41:08 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: desktop-file-utils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (17 days ago)

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