Re: Is it a bug of nautilus or gnome?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 17:11 +0800, Star Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:09 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 22:41 +0800, Star Liu wrote:
> >> > > Here is my problem, I can run a exe file(built by monodevelop on
> >> > > debian sid amd64) directly from command line like this:
> >> > > Desktop:~/MyLife/Mono/OFSM_IDE/bin/Debug# ./OFSM_IDE.exe
> >> > > but the same exe file cannot be launched by double click the file in
> >> > > gnome, I heard that it's because the mono package maker has  installed
> >> [..]
> >> >
> >> > Weird. I don't think we do anything that should make binfmt break. So, I
> >> > can't really say why this is not working for you.
> >>
> >> What would happen if there is a mime type association && .desktop with
> >> e.g. wine for .exe files? Would nautilus use wine or binfmt?
> >
> > It depends on the mime type. For files marked as executable of a
> > mimetype deriving from application/x-executable we lauch, and for
> > executables of mimetype deriving from text/plain we ask whether to
> > launch or open.
> I created a desktop file named mono.desktop into
> /usr/share/applications, its content is following:
> ------------------
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=Mono
> GenericName=Runtime
> Comment=The runtime for .NET applications
> Exec=mono %f
> NoDisplay=true
> StartupNotify=true
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;
> --------------------
> and application/x-ms-dos-executable appear only in this file, not in
> other desktop files. but after this, when i double click exe files
> with MimeType application/x-ms-dos-executable, gnome still says
> "couldn't display ....".
> anything more i can try to solve this problem? thanks

Did you run update-desktop-database?