Re: [libreoffice-website] some of the LO site templates download as ".bin" files - and no extensions.

On 10/30/2011 04:31 PM, Andreas Mantke wrote:
> Hi Volker, *,
>
> Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2011, 19:52:13 schrieb Volker Merschmann:
> > Hi,
> >
> > CCing  Andreas
> >
> > 2011/10/30 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>:
> > > I was looking at some of the templates on the LO template site.  Many of
> > > the one I looked at download with no extension.  Ubuntu/Firefox stated
> > > that they were .bin files.  The file manager shows then as OOo files of
> > > different types, like the .otx files.  Also the Hebrew Dictionary does
> > > not have an extension as well.
> > >
> > > So is there some problems here?
> > > Do I have to add the proper template file extension to get them to
> > > install or open correctly?
> > >
> > > Look at the Blue half circle and the Green half circle Presentation
> > > templates.  Also the LibreOffice Presentation template, plus others.
> > >   Tell me what am I to do with these non-extension files.
> > I can confirm this with
> > http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/blue_half_circle_with_tran
> > sparency
> I don't know at the moment, why some templates loose the mime-type. I looked into the
> mime-type registration of the instance, but ODF is completly recognized there
> (documents and templates with their file extensions). I'll work on this, but this
> needs some time.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
At least Ubuntu recognizes that the files are extensions, templates, 
etc., for OOo/LO.  For Ubuntu 10.04, everything is OOo files, not LO 
since OOo was the default for those mime types.  So, I just opened them 
and resaved them as the proper file type.


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