Re: Is it a bug of nautilus or gnome?

[Star Liu <minxinjianxin gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> 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?
>
thank you very much, after exe this command, i finally resolved this problem :)