Application handler problems

[Rafal Kustra <r kustra sympatico ca>]

I have trouble setting up the application handlers so that Nautilus
would listen.

I installed Open Office (OO, ver 1.0.3) and it has few file extensions
it handles. (I think it worked OK when I had a previous ver of OO installed)

For some (like .doc and .csv) things work fine in Nautilus.

But for others (like .sxc which is OO native spreadsheet format)
Nautilus stubornly says it does not have a viewer set up. And in the
menus for Viewers or Application there is nothing.

In my File Types and Programs dialog these extesnions are properly set
up to be served by openoffice and their MIME type is correctly set to
application/vnd.sun.xml.calc

But Nautilus thinks these are application/zip files which is perhaps a
problem.

As a note: when I run a "file" on these files it indeed reports that
this is zip type to be handled with v2.0 or better.

But my $HOME/.mime.types lists the .sxc as a vnd.sun.xml.calc, and I
hope this is what both File Types and Programs dialog and Nautilus use?

I must say this whole MIME and magic business is very confusing. There
are some many places where there is some database on it ("file" command
magic database, /etc/mime-magic and mime-magic.dat, /etc/mime.types,
$HOME/.mime.types). And then Netscape has its own db, I think, and I
still dont know what Nautilus uses.

So how do I get Nautilus to listen what I put in the File Types and
Programs dialog?

I am using redhat 7.2 (with Gnome 1.4 I think. How do I check that?)
(I installed RH8.0 with Gnome2 but it was a disaster. I could not get
the WM to do what I want, I could not switch to sawfish, and many things
were mysterious and hard to configure. And after a while the whole thing
crushed, so when I logged in again I did not get any menus or icons. I
switched to KDE but that is far from perfect. Is RH9.0 any better?)

Thank you,
rafal