File-roller don't use mime type, also context menu "open with" seems duplicate "view" function.

[ranespa]

Binary package hint: file-roller

1) Create an archive by one file whose mime type is well known.
2) Open it with file roller.
3) Right click and select "open with". You obtain a dialog box.
4) Right click and select "view". You obtain a dialog box.

I think that file-roller has to use mime type as other apps.

Related bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/24830

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, that's know upstrea: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126130

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

Hi Sebastien,

I just read on the Gnome 2.19.6 release notes and found this (link http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.19/2.19.6/NEWS):

 NEWS: file-roller-2.19.4
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version 2.19.4
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 * Get the mime type from the file content to find out the default
   application to use when viewing a file.

This might close the bug, although I'm not currently on my Ubuntu Gutsy box to check package versions and if file-roller really uses MIME types correctly now.

[Miguel Martinez (el-quark)]

I'm changing the status to fix released, since file-roller 2.19.4 did indeed deliver that fix. I've tried renaming a png before archiving, so that file-roller calls the needed application by mime type rather than by extension and it worked. I've currently tried png's, jpg's, txt's, eps's, pdf's, perl scripts, FORTRAN sources and text files without extension. All this has been tested in both file-roller 2.19.4 and 2.19.90 in Gutsy.