User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121811 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Zenwalk GNU Linux) Build Identifier: 0.9.92 Thunar shows a video icon for all of my Ogg Vorbis (*.ogg) files. Probably it uses a wrong mime type from shared-mime-info. pcmanfm and nautilus show the correct audio icon. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a directory with Ogg Vorbis files 2. 3. Actual Results: Thunar shows video icons Expected Results: Thunar should show audio icons
I can confirm this bug. I don't know if this things are connected, but thunar-thumbnailers also does not work properly with ogg video (Theora) files. ~ thunar -v Thunar 1.0.1 (Xfce 4.6.1)
Oh, yeah that's right! The same here since i start use XFCE, before using LXDE, this never happen using the PCManFM. Thunar just recognize ALL OGG Vorbis files as OGG Theora.
This must be very hard to fix, as the fix did not make it to 1.0.0final.
If someone wants to cook up a patch for Thunar 1.0.x, feel free to attach it to this bug. In Thunar >= 1.1.0 this is no longer our responsibility. If it's still broken with GIO then the bug should be forwarded to the GIO maintainers.
Handling .ogg files as OGG Theora is a safe bet, because video players are supposed to able to play OGG Vorbis files, too. As stated in http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions .ogg has more recently also been used for Ogg FLAC and for Theora, too. But Theora is not playable by audio-only players. Should that be ignored? Anyway, it is sad, that OGG Vorbis files are not identified correctly as audio files in custom actions and in the context sensitive menu generally.
To be honest: Handling Ogg Vorbis files as video is crap. I really don't want to start some multimedia player instead of my music player. Furthermore: * I've never seen .ogg Theora files * .ogg has also been used for Ogg FLAC and for Theora, too — these uses are deprecated now in favor of .oga and .ogv respectively * .ogg applies now for Vorbis I files only * .oga covers Ogg FLAC, Ghost, and OggPCM (not Vorbis)
As for Pohlmann's comment, it is easy to welcome patches, but I am totally ignorant of Thunars codebase, and I have too much pain in the ass already to start to investigate it on my own, and on ground of my experiences in the xfce mailing list in March 2009, from which I was blocked by Auke Kok then by the way, I don't expect any support from the core developers involved. Benedikt Meurer was not involved in those mailing list conversations. Is he as the QA contact supposed to tutor in these kind of things?
Mime issue, has nothing to do with thunar. See also bug #6901.