Re: Mime Bug ?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2001-06-15 09:02 Gaelyne Gasson wrote:
> I've found what I think may be a bug in Balsa v1.1.5.    For
> reference, I've been using the RedHat RPM version, and before
> installing the new version, I always copy the older version to
> /usr/bin/balsa-old.  
> 
> With the same Mime settings in Gnome and in /etc/mime.types, using
> Balsa v1.1.5 when I send a PDF file, it gets set as
> "x-unknown/(null)".  Using Balsa v1.1.4
> sending a PDF file, it's correctly set as "application/pdf".

This is really bug in libgnome, still waiting to get fixed. It is filed
at bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54690
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55461 (this has attached a
test program to detect, if your gnome-mime module is broken).

There is a workaround for this in CVS that tries to detect invalid mime
type and fall back to gnome_mime_type_or_default() when needed.

/Pawel
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