Re: file association lost after upgrading to gnome 2.6.1



Wow, works great!

Today my wife's waf to linux is increasing!!

Thanks all.

nautilus-list-bounces gnome org wrote on 2004/07/15 11:58:13:

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> Thanks all for the replies.
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> If anybody remembers the solution I would be very happy to read it because
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives seems to be down these days.
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> Anyway, I've download shared-mime-info-0.14.tar.gz and will install
> that this eveing on my linux (it's a messy "linux from scratch")
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> I suppose I don't have to rebuild nautilus after... Isn't?
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> Thanks,
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> Cyrille
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> Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com> wrote on 2004/07/15 23:49:09:
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> > On Tue, 2004-13-07 at 14:06 +0200, cyrille bollu aweurope be wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I recently upgraded my desktop from gnome 2.4.2 to gnome 2.6.1 and
> > > from then file association doesn't work anymore in nautilus. Most of
> > > my files have unknown type.
> > >
> > > I say "in nautilus" because file association seems to work OK in
> > > gnome-file-properties.
> > >
> > > Does anyoby has a clue about where this problem is coming from?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Cyrille
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK this is a result of GNOME changing mime databases to a common
> > freedesktop version. The problems caused by such a move are well known,
> > and as it is the only way to help is make sure you have the latest
> > shared-mime-info and submit any bugs you find.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ryan
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