No MimeType entry in .desktop

[Tero Karvinen]

Comix .cbr comics viewer package installs a .desktop file, but the .desktop file does not have a MimeType entry.

To reproduce
1) $ sudo apt-get install comix unrar
2) Double click a foo.cbr file in nautilus
What happens:
- "foo.cbr" opens in Archive Manager, which does not support .cbr files. Comix is not shown in the right click menu.
What should happen:
- "foo.cbr" should open in Comix, showing the comics.

To fix:
Probably /usr/share/applications/comix.desktop
should have a MimeType entry. For example, evince uses a MimeType entry like this:
$ grep MimeType /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop
MimeType=application/pdf;application/postscript;application/x-gzpostscript;application/x-dvi;image/vnd.djvu;image/tiff

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Tested with
$ grep DESCRIPTION /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS"
$ dpkg --list comix |grep comix
ii comix 2.4.1-1 GTK Comic B

[Christoph Wolk (spikespiegel-gmx)]

Comix registers mimetypes for cbz/cbr/cbt files and contains a MimeType enty in its .desktop file since version 2.7, iirc. The version in edgy (3.1) does not have this problem anymore.

I recommend getting a newer version on dapper, as comix is developed rather quickly and has both gained many new features and fixed lots of bugs since 2.4. Since it's written in python, installation is quite easy.

[Christoph Wolk (spikespiegel-gmx)]

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm closing this bug because it has been fixed in Edgy.

If you need a fix for this bug in Dapper, please follow the
instructions in the "How to request new packages" section of the
Backports wiki page:
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports