[Bug 44811] File type / Open with annoyance

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome

Distro : Dapper (breezy does the same, too).
Given an arbitrary text based document  it is not possible to assign an application to open the file with based only on the document file extension. 
Simple example : DXF files. Theese files are text based. However, DXF should be opened with qcad if it is installed, not with an editor.Trying to manually assign qcad to this type of file associates qcad with any plain text file. This happens because if gnome recognizes a file based on its content, it absolutely ignores the extension of the file. This would not be a problem on various binary files where there is no confusion risk (zip, mp3, avi, etc). However the actual trend is to use human readable files for documents (xml based for example) and this creates more and more problems as users can't assign which application should be used to open a certain type of document.

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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File type / Open with annoyance
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44811