Bug#364070: [moz-bonobo-list] Bug#364070: mozilla-bonobo: No MS-Excel/Gnumeric binding

[Christian Glodt]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:06 +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> Package: mozilla-bonobo
> Version: 0.4.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed mozilla-bonobo, and could succesfully open an ms-word
> file into firefox 1.5. But it does not work with ms-excel files, which I
> expected to load using gnumeric.
> 
> Gnumeric 1.6.3 is installed.

Gnumeric does no longer have a bonobo component. Seems it got disabled
in version 1.4:

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00049.html

Since there is no bonobo component anymore, Gnumeric can not
be used with mozilla-bonobo.

> In firefox, about:plugins prints :
> Mozilla-Bonobo 0.4.2.1
> 
>     File name: libmozilla_bonobo.so
>     This plugin uses GNOME Bonobo controls to display content inline.
> 
> MIME Type     Description     Suffixes        Enabled
> x-directory/webdav                    Yes
> application/x-abiword         AbiWord document                Yes
> application/msword    Word document           Yes
> application/vnd.ms-word       Word document           Yes
> application/rtf       RTF document            Yes
> application/wordperfect5.1                    Yes
> application/x-applix-word     Applix Words document           Yes
> application/vnd.palm  Palmpilot database/document             Yes
> application/x-palm-database   Palm OS database                Yes
> 
> I tried to play with gconf but only found an 
> "/apps/mozilla-bonobo/mime-types/ignore" key, nothing to actually add
> mime-types.

Mime types can not be added manually, mozilla-bonobo tries to
automatically detect all mime types for which a viewer component is
available.

> Shouldn't the application/msexcel mime-type simply be automatically 
> registered 
> into mozilla/firefox when one installs mozilla-bonobo ?

Yes, with the caveat that under some circumstances firefox will not
detect that mozilla-bonobo's mime types have changed. In that case,
the workaround described in the "configurability" section of the README
is applicable.

In any case, this particular problem is related solely to the fact
that Gnumeric does not ship a bonobo component any more.

Greetings,

Christian Glodt

> Best regards,
> 
> --
>   Olivier Guilyardi - Samalyse
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> 
> Versions of packages mozilla-bonobo depends on:
> ii  gconf2                2.14.0-1           GNOME configuration database 
> syste
> ii  konqueror             4:3.5.1-1          KDE's advanced file manager, web 
> b
> ii  libbonobo2-0          2.14.0-1           Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii  libbonoboui2-0        2.14.0-1           The Bonobo UI library
> ii  libc6                 2.3.6-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libgconf2-4           2.14.0-1           GNOME configuration database 
> syste
> ii  libglib2.0-0          2.10.1-2           The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnomeui-0          2.14.0-1           The GNOME 2 libraries (User 
> Interf
> ii  libgnomevfs2-0        2.14.0-2           GNOME virtual file-system 
> (runtime
> ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.8.16-1           The GTK+ graphical user 
> interface 
> ii  liborbit2             1:2.14.0-1         libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA 
> ORB
> ii  libx11-6              6.9.0.dfsg.1-6     X Window System protocol client 
> li
> ii  mozilla-browser       2:1.7.12-1.1       The Mozilla Internet application 
> s
> ii  mozilla-firefox       1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-4 Transition package for firefox 
> ren
> ii  xlibs                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6     X Window System client libraries 
> m
> 
> mozilla-bonobo recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
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