Re: ROX and jars and zips

Mithat Konar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks. Can a fix (theoretically) be hacked in ROX or does the fix need to
come from the XDG MIME gods?

We already slightly modify the XDG code, so we could add our own fix. 
However I want to check the upstream implementation first to see if they've
already fixed it.  Hopefully I can look at it next week.

> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Stephen Watson <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 8:26:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [rox-users] ROX and jars and zips
> > 
> > Mithat Konar wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got two different versions of ROX-Filer on my Ubuntu Jaunty
setup.
> > One is the version packaged by Ubuntu (2.5) and the other the latest bin
> > from http://sourceforge.net/projects/rox/files/rox/ (2.10).
> > > 
> > > The Ubuntu package version seems to differentiate between *.zip and
*.jar
> > files just fine. However, when I use the 2.10 download, it seems to
insist
> > that jars are zips. I installed the 2.10 download in ~/.local/lib, have
a
> > link to it in ~/.local/bin, and have ~/.local/bin in the PATH.
> > > 
> > > I can't figure out where each are getting their MIME info or otherwise
> > figure out what's going on. Help?
> > 
> > 2.5 used a 2005 implementation of the XDG MIME database, 2.10 uses a
2007
> > implementation.  There appears to be a bug in the new code:
> > 
> > * application/x-java-archive has an alias application/x-jar
> > * the glob matching returns *both* type names
> > * the magic matching fails to match the application/x-java-archive
because
> > the 0xCAFE match might not be in the correct place
> > * the magic matches a Zip file, because it is.
> > 
> > It looks like the XDG code needs either an update or a bug fix.
> > 
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