why only abiword in preferred applications?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:45 -0800, Sean McNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:37 -0800, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 20:35 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:26:53 -0800, Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I cannot get gedit or anything else showing in the Default Text Editor
> > > > tab.  Select an Editor only shows abiword now.  I've reinstalled
> > > > gnomecontrolcenter2 and a few other things along with gedit2.  Nothing
> > > > has worked.  I've searched with the gconf editor and I do not see
> > > > abiword in there.  It sucks that all my clicks in nautilus now open
> > > > files in abiword :(
> > > 
> > > You can change that by go to nautilus -> right click on text editor file  
> > > -> propteries -> Open With and select what you want the default to be. I  
> > > dislike what AbiWord team has decided to add text/plain in their mimetype  
> > > too. I can remove it from the *.desktop if I get the high vote.
> > 
> > This has nothing to do with abiword having a text/plain mimetype.  That
> > is perfectly legitimate to have more than one program that can handle a
> > particular kind of file.
> > 
> > I found the root cause why gedit wasn't in my selector.  It was missing
> > in the mimeinfo.cache.  I did an update-desktop-database and that got it
> > into the selector.  But now I cannot select it and have it stay.
> > 
> > If I select "Text Editor", which is the gedit.desktop Name, it will not
> > stay.  There must be some issue with gconf2 not being able to save my
> > selection so it always chooses the first one in the mimeinfo.cache.
> 
> Sorry to reply to my own message, but...
> 
> I took a look at my .xsession-errors and bingo!  Here is the error when
> running from a terminal:
> 
> [sean at server sean]$ gnome-default-applications-properties
> 
> (gnome-default-applications-properties:65144): libgnomevfs-WARNING **:
> Deprecated function.  User modifications to the MIME database are no
> longer supported.
> 
> So for some reason when I try to select the editor it is trying to
> update the MIME database.

As was said earlier, the new way to do this is through Nautilus.  Just
select a text/plain file, and click the radio button next to the
preferred application under the Open With tab.

Joe

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