Issue 96122

Summary: Mac UTI types do not seem to be correct
Product: porting Reporter: chrisbitmead <openoffice>
Component: MacOSXAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: UNCONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOO300m9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Mac OS X, all   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description chrisbitmead 2008-11-12 01:15:52 UTC 
The Info.plist in a Mac application defines the UTI types the app supports, and
what those types conform to. It seems that the openoffice UTI types are defined
in Info.plist to only conform to public.data and public.content which is a very
generic level of conformance. It seems to me that openoffice presentation type
should conform to public.presentation standard UTI type. Openoffice documents
should conform to public.composite-content as should spreadsheets. If office
documents are still implemented as zip files, they should probably also conform
to com.pkware.zip-archive. Basically, you need to go through the Mac UTI
documentation, take a look at what Apple does in their applications etc, and
make the OpenOffice types conform to as many more specific types as is
appropriate. This is really important in making openoffice documents work well
in the entire Mac application universe.
Comment 1 shaunmcdonald131 2008-11-13 20:00:25 UTC 
Are you able to provide a patch/new version of the file.
Comment 2 chrisbitmead 2010-02-12 03:44:03 UTC 
Read the Apple doco on this. I'm not an expert on the OOo file format, I only observe that the UTI types 
are poor.