[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#504147: Thunar detects all JPEG files as MIME type image/pjpeg

john.lindgren at tds.net john.lindgren at tds.net
Sun Jan 4 03:46:45 UTC 2009


Here's the scoop.

When thunar_vfs_mime_database_store_parse_file loads mimeinfo.cache, it
calls thunar_vfs_mime_database_get_info_locked to get an I.D. for each
MIME-type entry in the file.  thunar_vfs_mime_database_get_info_locked
"unaliases" some of these type names; for example, it changes
image/pjpeg to image/jpeg.  As a result,
thunar_vfs_mime_database_store_parse_file creates two entries for
image/jpeg in Thunar's database -- the original image/jpeg entry and the
one that was image/pjpeg.  When
thunar_vfs_mime_database_get_applications goes to find programs that can
open a JPEG file, it reads only one of those entries (the one that came
last in mimeinfo.cache, as it happens).

Thus when the image/pjpeg entry comes after image/jpeg in
mimeinfo.cache, programs that can load normal JPEG's but not progressive
ones are not shown.

As I see it, there are three ways to fix this behavior.  The easiest is
to leave out the unaliasing code altogether, but this may have
consequences that I'm not aware of).  The second is for
thunar_vfs_mime_database_store_parse_file to merge entries with
duplicate MIME types.  The third is for
thunar_vfs_mime_database_get_applications to be prepared to read
duplicate entries.  I don't think this last solution is practical since
we would have to abandon g_hash_table_lookup and look up matching
entries in the database some other way.

Simply removing image/pjpeg from the unaliasing would not really fix
the problem as it would still potentially occur for other file types.

Any thoughts?

-- John Lindgren





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