Bug 129063 – epiphany refuses to open bz2 files with Archive Manager

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Vadim 2006-04-06 14:11:13 UTC]

gnome 2.12.3, epiphany 1.8.4.1

Nautilus opens bz2 with Archive Manager (the only app).

Epiphany open gz/tgz files, but not bz2:
"You have no application able to open "linux-2.6.2.tar.bz2". You can download it instead."

Headers from the server (say kernel.org):
for gz:
  Content-Type:	application/x-gzip
for bz2:
  Content-Type:	application/x-bzip2
Seems fine to me.

Also found suggestion in forums to check /usr/share/epiphany/mime-types-permissions.xml.

There are 2 lines there:
<mime-type type="application/x-bzip"/>
<mime-type type="application/x-bzip-compressed-tar"/>

Unfortunatelly adding
<mime-type type="application/x-bzip2"/>
makes no sence.

How can I make Epiphany open bz2 directly instead of downloading it before?

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2006-04-07 03:31:55 UTC]

The mimetypes are correct. This works for me in 2.14, so I consider this 'fixed'.

[Comment 2 Vadim 2006-04-22 19:16:07 UTC]

I installed unmasked Gnome 2.14 / Epiphany 2.14.0 (compiled against Firefox 1.0.8). It still behaves the same way about bz2 files mentioned above.

For fun Firefox 1.0.8 itself picks Gnome/Nautilus settings and opens bz2 in Archive Manager :)

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2006-04-23 08:14:53 UTC]

yeah well, i still can't reproduce.. 

what version of shared-mime-info do you have installed ?

[Comment 4 Vadim 2006-04-23 09:44:58 UTC]

It was shared-mime-info 0.16. Also tried with 0.17-r2.
Also tried on clean epiphany profile on test user. No luck.

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2006-04-24 06:49:48 UTC]

Assuming you build epiphany against firefox, build it against mozilla, see if that makes a difference (or the other way around).

Can anyone reading this reproduce it ?

[Comment 6 Vadim 2006-04-24 14:51:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Assuming you build epiphany against firefox, build it against mozilla, see if
> that makes a difference (or the other way around).

Rebuilt against mozilla. Still no luck.
(And mozilla itself opens the link in Archive Manager by default :)
I must be doomed.

BTW I have Ub*u unstable here, and epiphany 2.14.x opens bz2 in Archive Manager in it. So I'm not that completely doomed...

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2006-04-25 08:28:17 UTC]

I don't see why it should be different between ubuntu and gentoo, I guess it is just some local prefs file lying around or something. Is it reproducable on a fresh user ?

[Comment 8 Vadim 2006-04-25 13:58:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I don't see why it should be different between ubuntu and gentoo, I guess it is
> just some local prefs file lying around or something. Is it reproducable on a
> fresh user ?

I tried that before and checked again now, with fresh user. No luck.
I also unmerged epiphany completely and looked for remaining files (with epiphany in the name), in case if something is left from old versions.

May be something wrong with my setup. I think we can give up now unless anybody else can reproduce it.

Thanks

[Comment 9 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2006-12-03 11:04:53 UTC]

Vadim,

If you have any new info about this issue, don't hesitate to reopen this bug.

Thanks