engrampa does'nt open odt files

[ghost]

engrampa should open odt files (or ods) files.

engrampa does'nt open those files (while trying to open, engrampa reports:...engrampa does not support odt-type of archives).

file-roller can open these files, because odt files are sort of zip-archives.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Mate 1.18.0

1.18.3

Linuxmint 18.3

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

[flexiondotorg]

odt is a file format from the Open Document Foundation used by software such as LibreOffice. Why should Engrampa be able to open such files?

[ghost]

Yes, i know.
but odt is, as I said, a zip-format. You can open it (e.g. with file-roller[!]) and change the content, which could be sometimes necessary).
as engrampa is a fork of file-roller I expected it to have the same features

[alexarnaud]

Le 07/02/2018 à 18:37, Martin Wimpress a écrit :

odt is a filw format from the Open Document Foundation used by software such as LibreOffice. Why should Engrampa be able to open such files?

You can unzip an odt file to see its content. Best regards. -- Alex ARNAUD

[ghost]

Okay, seems that engrampa cannot.
Since engrampa is the default unzip program in mate I thought it should be able to do what most other unzip programs (including file-roller) can do.

Edit:
As a work-around: I can rename the odt file from xxx.odt in xxx.odt.zip and only then engrampa can open it.

Okay, I only wondered at the difference between file-roller and engrampa.

[alexarnaud]

@flexiondotorg is there any easyHacks label for Mate ?

Maybe it could just be a little trick to make ODT recognize as supported mime-type. But I haven't look more deeply because I'm busy on accessibility stuff.

Best regards.

[GM-Script-Writer-62850]

Here are some mime types:

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation-template
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet-template
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template

Here is the list of mime types for zip files in engrampa:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa/blob/master/src/fr-command-zip.c#L384-L389
Try adding them, compiling engrampa, and see if they work

[ghost]

@alexarnaud The most ease trick is just to do a symlink (rename if you prefer) to something.zip.