Re: File associations problem

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 23:44 +0100, deeno ukf net wrote:
> Can someone help with this, I must be missing something pretty obivous,
> but I've upgraded to Gnome 2.8 on fedora 2, and have now lost all my
> file associations in Nautilus. Clicking on any file type results in
> 'Can't display location -> There was an error launching the
> application.'
> 
> Also, the 'Open With' tab in the properties dialog just shows 'No
> applications selected'. When I try to add a new association, nothing
> gets added into the list, no matter how many times I try.
> 
> Any suggestions please....this is driving me crazy as my system is
> pretty useless without this working.

In addition to Alexander's comments, you might also need to run the
update-desktop-database command.  It seems a lot of apps aren't calling
this during make install.

--
Shaun