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On 2007-02-03T02:32:52+00:00 Sebastien Bacher wrote:

That problem has been described on
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/83001

"Nautilus 2.17.90 refuses to open certain text files, claiming:

"Error: no application found
Cannot open /home/me/file.txt: No application is known for this kind of file."

A test case:
echo "From Dostoevsky:" > test1.txt
echo "In Dostoevsky:" > test2.txt

Nautilus correctly opens test2.txt but not test1.txt.

I'm using amd64 Feisty with LANG=en-US.UTF-8."


That's because the file starting by "From " is detected as application/mbox and there is no editor associated to it. Maybe it would make sense to sub-class the type with text/plain so text editor would be happy to open it?

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shared-mime/+bug/83001/comments/0

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On 2007-02-05T03:28:39+00:00 Bastien Nocera wrote:

2007-02-05  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx>

        * freedesktop.org.xml.in: Make mbox a sub-class of text/plain
        so that a text-editor can be used to open it (Closes: #9859)

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shared-mime/+bug/83001/comments/3


** Changed in: shared-mime
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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