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gnome-font-viewer package

WOFF format not associated with gnome-font-viewer

Bug #1332426 reported by Gioele Barabucci
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Default settings and artwork for Baltix OS
Triaged
Medium
Mantas Kriaučiūnas
GNOME Font Viewer
Confirmed
Medium
gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

In a default Ubuntu 14.04 installation, OTF and WOFF files are not associated with gnome-font-viewer, even thou gnome-font-viewers is perfectly capable of showing these files.

By default...
* OTF files are shown with a generic document icon and are associated with "LibreOffice Math" (why?);
* WOFF files are shown with a font icon but are associated with no programs.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-font-viewer 3.8.0-1build1
Uname: Linux 3.15.0-031500rc8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jun 20 08:24:09 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-15 (35 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gnome-font-viewer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, do you have some example of such files to point at or to add to the bug?

Changed in gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :
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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :
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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :

I have added two example files that show this problem in Nautilus as configured by Ubuntu 14.04.

For the records, both files are licensed under the SIL licence.

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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :

I was wrong, both files are licensed under the Apache 2.0 licence http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/open-sans

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue with the woff one is that gnome-font-viewer doesn't list "application/font-woff" as a supported mimetype, the issue with the other one is that it's detected as a libreoffice document "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula-template"

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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :

Why is nautilus detecting the OFT as a LibreOffice document?

file(1) can "correctly" detect it as "TrueType font data"

    $ file sans.otf
    sans.otf: TrueType font data
    $ file -i sans.otf
    sans.otf: application/x-font-ttf; charset=binary

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

nautilus is using the shared-mime-info database

they use

" <magic priority="50">
      <match type="string" value="OTTO" offset="0"/>
    </magic>"

it means they expect fonts to start with OTTO, that doesn't seem the case of that one...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the shared-mime-info issue should be reported upstream on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=shared-mime-info

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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :

I reported the OTF bug. It can be found at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80276

So now this bug report is only about gnome-font-viewer not advertising its support for WOFF files.

summary: - OTF and WOFF formats not associated with gnome-font-viewer
+ WOFF format not associated with gnome-font-viewer
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks, do you think you could report the other issue on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-font-viewer as well?

Changed in gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :

I filed this bug upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731957

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-font-viewer:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thanks

Changed in gnome-font-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
no longer affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
Changed in baltix-default-settings:
assignee: nobody → Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-font-viewer:
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Heuberger (michael.heuberger) wrote :

it is still happening on the latest ubuntu ...

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erio (eri0) wrote :

.woff Font Files can be opened by the default Ubuntu Font Viewer (by right click->open with Other Application in Nautilus), but they are still not associated to it in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial.

Ken Sharp (kennybobs)
tags: added: xenial
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