Re: GNOME File Association

[Tim <timwatt@gmail.com>]

I experienced the same problem recently while updating unstable (I've
been running unstable for a while; it's possible I accidentally
corrupted some file).

Anyway, I solved my problem by running apt-get install --reinstall
[all the programs Ron mentioned above].  All the programs were already
installed on the system except mimedecode (which, as Bruce mentioned,
doesn't directly solve the problem). That's the easy way to do it. I'm
pretty sure the reason it works is because one of the postinst scripts
rebuilds whatever file it was I lost.  One interesting postinst runs
'update-mime-database /usr/share/mime'.

Good luck.
 - Tim

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:53:52 +0100, René Seindal <rene@seindal.dk> wrote:
> Bruce Park wrote (11-12-2004 18:25):
> 
> 
> > René Seindal wrote:
> >
> >> Bruce Park wrote (11-12-2004 16:14):
> >>
> >>> Is it possible that GNOME 2.8 (or Debian for that matter) did away
> >>> with the "File Association" application found on the Applications ->
> >>> Desktop Preferences menu?
> >>
> >> Yes it did,
> >>
> >> Use "Open with other application" and type in the application you want
> >> to use.
> >>
> >> It will be remembered for that file type afterwards.
> >>
> >
> > I wonder, why was it removed? I do realize that once you associated an
> > file to an application, it works fine but most of my original settings
> > have been removed.
> 
> I think the idea was to move towards the freedesktop.org system, so
> application / mime / preferences can be shared between different
> desktops.  It will make it a lot easier for applications to work with
> different desktops, if they can agree on some common conventions.
> 
> I don't think the idea is all bad, but a few things have been lost in
> the process.  I used to have files with different defaults than that of
> the mime-type.  I could do that in gnome 2.6, but not in 2.8.
> 
> Another minor thing with the new system is that you cannot enter a user
> readable name for a custom application. You just see the program name in
> the menu.  To get around that I have to edit the .desktop files in
> ~/.local/share/applications/ by hand.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> René Seindal (rene@seindal.dk)
> Seindal Consult
> 
>