gnome 2.8 mime associations

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 20:59, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	I just installed gnome 2.8 from the marcuscom.com tinderbox, and 
> everything is great and neat, except mimes are completely broken.

Define, "completely broken."

> 
> 	I reinstalled gnome-mime from ports, latest nautilus. The gnome-vfs from 
> the tinderbox is the latest.
> 
> 	Apparantely gnome control center from the tinderbox does not come with the 
> capplet for manually setting mimes.

Read the GNOME online help.  The MIME system has changed in 2.8.  All
MIME changes must go through Nautilus.

> 
> 	The mimes in /usr/X11R6/share.. appear to be allright, i tried copying 
> them in the $HOME/.gnome/mime-info/ dir but without effect.
> 
> 	So not only that all mimes are broken, but I also can't add them manually. 
> (or i did it in the wrong way by using vi)
> 
> 	If would really appreciate if anyone knows some possible fix for this and 
> shares it with me.

You need to provide more details than simply saying something is
broken.  Provide screenshots, expected behavior, files in question, and
steps to reproduce.

Joe

> 
> 	Thanks a lot for your time.
> 
> Yours Sincerely,
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