MIME badly broken

["F. Heitkamp" <heitkamp ameritech net>]

I have installed Gnome 2.6 from scratch by compiling all 2.6 destop 
applications from the Gnome ftp server. The setup works for the most part, 
however no MIME types and associations seem to work properly.  For example 
if I click on a jpg image, gnome says that I have no program associated 
with that mime type. I try to add a program (say eog or gthumb) and that 
does not work.  The box that comes up is only half filled in with 
defaults.  If I try to add a default program and save, the program does 
not get saved, but not exactly, if I open the box again the association is 
there, but I get the same error when I try to open the file. If I just try 
to use "open with" to choose an application to open the jpg, I get a box 
that says "There is no application associated with that MIME type" and 
round and round we go.

Shouldn't a full install of gnome have the default associations built-in?
What could be wrong with my  system that is confusing the Gnome MIME set 
up?  Does having a .mime.types or /etc/mime.types mess up gnome?  Is 
anyone else having a problem like this?

Some googling didn't seem to find any hints as to what I could do to fix 
this problem.

Also when I open a application help, I get the raw xml file in the gedit 
application.  I don't think that is supposed to happen and may be related 
to the MIME problems above.


Fred

Error Loading Explorer.exe
You must reinstall Windows.