Add support for MS PowerPoint 2007 Formats - Needed for OOo

[Chris Cheney]

Binary package hint: shared-mime-info

I saved out test files for every format that MS PowerPoint 2007 supports saving and used gvfs-info to report what it thought about each file. It seems that most of them are not supported for detection yet. I will attach a zip file with all formats MS PowerPoint 2007 can save out to:

These need to be improved for certain:

example - office theme.thmx : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - powerpoint 2007 macro-enabled show.ppsm : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - powerpoint 2007 macro-enabled template.potm : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - powerpoint 2007 show.ppsx : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - powerpoint 2007 template.potx : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - powerpoint 2007 xml presentation.xml : application/xml - application/xml
example - single file web page.mht : text/plain - application/octet-stream

The following could be improved by subclassing them, but it might not really be too big of a deal...

example - web page.htm : text/html - text/html

I will also have additional bugs for Access/Excel/Word file formats.

Thanks!

Chris Cheney

[jlparise (jlparise)]

I marked this as confirmed, since I too can reproduce this issue. However, I believe this is going to be addressed in Open Office 3.0. This should most likely be marked as a wish-list item.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Er this isn't going to be addressed in OpenOffice 3.0, the mime info is missing from shared-mime-info, OpenOffice 2.4 can already open most of these file types if the shared-mime-info was setup right to begin with.

Unless I am missing something?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Doesn't openoffice have to list the formats in its .desktop files but shared-mime-info has to know how to recognize the file also or the file won't be opened via eg nautilus since Gnome won't know what kind of file it is to begin with?

[berg (berg-foss)]

@cris
I think that I understood your idea: the objective is "know" what file is. "Work" with the file or "open" this file is a openoffice's ( koffice, abiword etc) problem ( a big ooxml problem - ISO raped :)

http://avi.alkalay.net/2008/03/how-microsoft-raped-iso.html

linking bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/208062
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/208071
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/208092
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shared-mime-info/+bug/208096

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Hi, should we mark this linked bugs as duplicate off bug #138252 or viceversa? it seems that this set of bugs are being worked on??

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the 2007 example are mostly recognized correctly on jaunty lowering the setting

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report Chris Cheney , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!