I do not think there will ever be a way to include in the distribution
any possible mimetype. In these condition, there must be a way for the
enduser to control how his files are opened based for example only on
the extension (or anything that works for any generic file).
At this moment, it is impossible (using only the standard desktop environment)
to assign DXF files to be opened with the appropriate application.This is
because nautilus tries to outsmart the user in identified almost any non binary
file as a pure text file and assign it to be opened with the default texteditor.
Trying to change this behaviour by right clicking such a file (a dxf file for
example) and assigning another application to handle the file will actually
assign any textfile to be opened with the second application, which again is
wrong.
As long as the user does not have a way to change the behaviour for third party
documents/files this is still a bug. (Would you otherwise prefer us to open a
bug for ubuntu saying that "ubuntu does not include any possible mimetype on
earth" ? )
It's not right to always try to outsmart the user about what he (the user)
wants. A lot of us have bad memories about a certain operating system doing
exactly that.
Thank you.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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