Re: Opening files from file-roller

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:

> odd. file-roller uses  mime-info to my knowledge.
> re-run "/usr/bin/update-desktop-database" as root, and check file-roller
> again.
>
> is this issue limited to a particular user ?
>  
I just checked and file-roller works exactly the same for all users (I 
tested it with my account, a "general" account created for people who 
don't have accounts and the root account).  In fact, what is happening 
is not that file-roller does not open certain "registered" files is that 
it is not opening the ones that I would like it to recognize as a 
particular type of file.

Let me explain:  I have a source rpm file (which file-roller can open) 
with several patch  (*.patch) files in the archive.  With all the users, 
attempting to open the files shows a list of registered text file 
editors (eg. Emacs Text Editor, Vi IMproved, OpenOffice.org Writer, 
etc.) that can open these files.  In fact, when I try to open a 
"*.tar.gz" file in the "*.src.rpm" archive, in the list of Available 
applications appears "Archive Manager" for all the users, which is 
exactly what should happen.

Recently I wanted to browse the xorg documentation (xorg-x11-doc 
package) which I downloaded and installed for my system (CentOS 4).  
This package contains compressed postscript files  (*.PS.gz) which I 
need to open with file-roller.  When I open these files the postscript 
file appears in the archive but when I try to open the postscript file 
(from file-roller), there are no "Available applications".  If I extract 
the file I can then right click on the file in nautilus and select 
either "Open with 'PostScript Viewer'" or "Open with 'KGhostView'".  
This is where I think file-roller is not doing what it's supposed to 
do.  Is this wrong?  Is there some setting I'm missing?   Thanks for 
your input, it's very helpful.

PS.  I just ran 'update-desktop-database' as root and I got the 
following error (Maybe this is my problem?):
[root sweety ~]$ update-desktop-database
Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/konverter.desktop': Failed 
to open file '/usr/share/applications/konverter.desktop': No such file 
or directory