Add support for MS Excel 2007 Formats - Needed for OOo

[Chris Cheney]

Binary package hint: shared-mime-info

I saved out test files for every format that MS Excel 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 Excel 2007 can save out to:

These need to be improved for certain:

example - dif data interchange format.dif : text/plain - application/octet-stream
example - excel 2007 add-in.xlam : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - excel 2007 binary workbook.xlsb : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - excel 2007 macro-enabled template.xltm : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - excel 2007 template.xltx : application/zip - application/octet-stream
example - formatted text space delimited.prn : text/plain - application/octet-stream
example - single file web page.mht : text/plain - application/octet-stream
example - xml spreadsheet 2003.xml : application/xml - application/xml

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/PowerPoint/Word file formats.

Thanks!

Chris Cheney

[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 excel 2007 example are correctly recognized in jaunty lowering the settings

[Grzegorz G. (grzesiek1e5)]

All those files are recognized, marking as fix released.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Hardy's no longer supported, won't fix