[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#547623: Bug#547623: thunar: MS Office .doc treated as plain text document which

[John Lindgren]

Yes, I've been successfully using that workaround for some time now.  Of
course, it gets annoying to edit those files again every time they are
replace by an update.

Peace,
John Lindgren


On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 21:24 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On dim., 2010-04-18 at 10:38 -0400, Julian Casadesus wrote:
> > Open the file:
> > /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml
> > 
> > And remove this block ( at line 149 ):
> > <mime-type type="text/plain"> <!-- As discussed on xdg list, *.doc is needed here for disambiguation -->
> >    <glob pattern="*.doc"/>
> > </mime-type>
> > 
> > Then update the mime database as root:
> > ~$ update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
> > 
> > You have to restart the thunar instance to see the changes:
> > ~$ thunar --quit
> > 
> 
> Can you try the above workaround (checking first that kdelibs5-data is
> installed, and making a backup) and report back?