Bug#364070: mozilla-bonobo: No MS-Excel/Gnumeric binding

[Olivier Guilyardi]

Package: mozilla-bonobo
Version: 0.4.2.1-1
Severity: normal


Hi,

I just installed mozilla-bonobo, and could succesfully open an ms-word
file into firefox 1.5. But it does not work with ms-excel files, which I
expected to load using gnumeric.

Gnumeric 1.6.3 is installed.

In firefox, about:plugins prints :
Mozilla-Bonobo 0.4.2.1

    File name: libmozilla_bonobo.so
    This plugin uses GNOME Bonobo controls to display content inline.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
x-directory/webdav 			Yes
application/x-abiword 	AbiWord document 		Yes
application/msword 	Word document 		Yes
application/vnd.ms-word 	Word document 		Yes
application/rtf 	RTF document 		Yes
application/wordperfect5.1 			Yes
application/x-applix-word 	Applix Words document 		Yes
application/vnd.palm 	Palmpilot database/document 		Yes
application/x-palm-database 	Palm OS database 		Yes

I tried to play with gconf but only found an 
"/apps/mozilla-bonobo/mime-types/ignore" key, nothing to actually add
mime-types.

Shouldn't the application/msexcel mime-type simply be automatically registered 
into mozilla/firefox when one installs mozilla-bonobo ?

Best regards,

--
  Olivier Guilyardi - Samalyse

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mozilla-bonobo depends on:
ii  gconf2                2.14.0-1           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  konqueror             4:3.5.1-1          KDE's advanced file manager, web b
ii  libbonobo2-0          2.14.0-1           Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0        2.14.0-1           The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                 2.3.6-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4           2.14.0-1           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.10.1-2           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomeui-0          2.14.0-1           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0        2.14.0-2           GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.8.16-1           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2             1:2.14.0-1         libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libx11-6              6.9.0.dfsg.1-6     X Window System protocol client li
ii  mozilla-browser       2:1.7.12-1.1       The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  mozilla-firefox       1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Transition package for firefox ren
ii  xlibs                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6     X Window System client libraries m

mozilla-bonobo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information