Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Synthetic Cartoonz <synthetoonz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 21:32, BandiPat wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:52 pm, C Hamel wrote:
> > I note that on SuSE 9, 9.1, 9.2 the OOo/ZIP file associations are
> > frelled. Out of the box, the *.sxw, *.sxc, *.sdw, etc., all have the
> > ZIP icon and when I edit the file type I find that the OOo files all
> > have the *.zip extension listed, rather than the extension that they
> > actually are.
> >
> > When I correct the OOo extension in the 'edit file type' area and
> > supply the correct icon, all ZIP files replicate that change ...and
> > vice versa when I operate on the ZIP file type and correct it.  I am
> > extremely weary of this problem!
> >
> > There just has to be an answer to this... or is it a
> > *major_oversight* on the part of KDE, SuSE or OOo (whoever is
> > responsible)??

> I don't this problem in my 9.2, didn't see it in 9.1 either.  I just
> tried it to be sure, but renaming a file to .zip shows it to be an
> archive file.  It is set to be opened by ark or archiver.  I'm not sure
> how yours managed to get in the condition it seems to be in, but I'm
> guessing you have missed a "file association" somewhere that keeps it
> that way.

Aren't OOo files like gzip'd tarfiles?  My (perhaps lame) theory is that 
something munged up the "quick" file type recognition by file extension, so 
KDE/konqueror does it the "long" way by looking at the actual file contents, 
and so determes that the file appears to be a zip'd data file.