bad mimetype detection through ssh if file extensions are not present

[Zoltán Kovács]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have a simple UTF8 encoded file and a configure script. I would like to edit the UTF8 encoded text file via ssh in Nautilus. But the file types seems to be detected as binary (application/octet-stream). When I download the files into my local file system, everything works well, the first file is detected as a text/x-csrc and a text/x-shellscript.

This is bad for me, because I cannot edit these files through ssh in nautilus:

Cannot open ssh://kovzol@pascal/home/kovzol/p/w2/configure: No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file.

In addition, I cannot add the Gnome Text Editor to this file type because I get an error message:

"Nem lehet alkalmazást hozzáadni az alkalmazás-adatbázishoz", in English: "Application cannot be added to the application database", or so.

The simple UTF8 file has the name "COPYRIGHT". I experienced that if I change the name to "COPYRIGHT.txt", then the file type will be detected properly and I can edit this file in nautilus well.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 28 11:31:56 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcCwd: /home/kovzol
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=hu_HU.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux d6252 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.