Re: Problem with file associations

[Matt Keenan <Matt Keenan Sun COM>]

Mike, 

I have had this exact problem last week when attempting to view help files on
my build of HEAD as well, the problem is with gnome-vfs, you need to download
and install shared-mime-info, this can be got from :

   http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info

You also need to ensure that the environment variable :

    XDG_DATA_DIRS

is set you your data dir e.g :

	/opt/gnome-26/share

where /opt/gnome-26 is my prefix, just change it whatever yours is.

This worked for me, basically gnome-vfs is not recognising mime-types
correctly. 

More info on XDG can be seen at :

    http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec



Rgds

Matt

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, mike wrote:

> I have a problem for about three weeks (from about 10 Jan checkout)with
> file associations on HEAD
> 
> When I try to open any file (desktop icon, WP file, spreadsheet) I get
> the message (network browsing as an example)
> ----
> There is no action associated with "windows network".
> 
> You can configure GNOME to associate applications with file types. Do
> you want to associate an application with this file type now?
> ----
> 
> Also the desktop files showup as .desktop names and nothing is listed in
> open with.
> 
> Has there been a new module module added that I have missed?
> 
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