[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000043]: Wrong handling of file extensions in File Manager

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The following bug has been CLOSED
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000043
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Reporter:                   KoRnaz2
Handler:                    edscott
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000043
Category:                   xffm
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   trivial
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
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Date Submitted:             2003-12-12 08:58 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-01-17 15:04 GMT
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Summary:                    Wrong handling of file extensions in File Manager
Description: 
I've noticed this bug in all versions of XFCE4. There's a problem with file
names which have more than one dot in them. Everything from the first dot
is treated as a file extension. This is a wrong behaviour. For example if
there's a file Track.01.mp3 extension is treated as 01.mp3 and therefore
file associations don't work. IMHO, file extension is everything after the
LAST dot in file name, not after the first one. This should be fixed ASAP,
because I really like this WM :]
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 edscott - 2003-12-12 14:40 GMT 
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Using the current CVS HEAD version, click on file with button 2 to see what
xffm thinks it is. Clicking on track.01.mp3 yields:

/home/edscott/tmp/track.01.mp3 (audio/x-mp3: MPEG layer 3 audio)

So all is good. Of course if you have something like file.tar.gz, type
".tar.gz" will take preference over ".gz".

The 4.0 branch parsing routines are different (equal to xfce3 behaviour).
With xffm 4.1 (CVS HEAD), the whole mime business has changed to
FreeDesktop standard. Backporting to 4.0 is not an option (unless the 4.1
tree is committed to the 4.0 branch, which is a big no-no).