Ubuntu
mime-support package

Office 2007 mime types

Bug #113886 reported by Julien Rottenberg
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mime-support (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Chris Cheney
Declined for Gutsy by Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hardy
Confirmed
Low
Chris Cheney

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mime-support

There is no support in /etc/mime.types for Office 2007 files (docx pptx xlsx)

((Yeah... I know bug #1, but life ain't easy))

Possible fix :

application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx

Found in this post : http://www.vladville.com/2007/04/office-2007-mime-types-for-apache.html

I've tried that ...

I'll post it if our visitors complain (they were not able to download uploaded files on apache2 / Ubuntu Dapper)

Revision history for this message
will_in_wi (will-in-wi) wrote :

Happens for me also.

Changed in mime-support:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Adrian Petrescu (apetresc) wrote :

I think this should be viewed as a fairly high-priority fix (even moreso because it would be SO SIMPLE to solve). At the moment, a .docx file, when double-clicked in Gnome or opened in Firefox, will get opened by file-roller, and expose the internal structure. This would lead almost all non-computer-literate people to assume that Ubuntu cannot access these files (which is false, OO.org handles them just fine)

It would be a trivial fix to have these open in OO.o and the payoff would be immediate. Voted for inclusion in Hardy/Gutsy.

Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)
Changed in mime-support:
assignee: nobody → ccheney
importance: Undecided → Low
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