Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:45:58 -0800 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why only abiword in preferred applications? Message-ID: <1102563958.64827.16.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <1102563455.64827.12.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1102559213.64667.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <opsipythyg9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <1102563455.64827.12.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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--=-vxdA7qEpJpe/r/Yqa7nN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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@mcneil.com> wrote= : > >=20 > > > I cannot get gedit or anything else showing in the Default Text Edito= r > > > tab. Select an Editor only shows abiword now. I've reinstalled > > > gnomecontrolcenter2 and a few other things along with gedit2. Nothin= g > > > 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 :( > >=20 > > You can change that by go to nautilus -> right click on text editor fil= e =20 > > -> propteries -> Open With and select what you want the default to be. = I =20 > > dislike what AbiWord team has decided to add text/plain in their mimety= pe =20 > > too. I can remove it from the *.desktop if I get the high vote. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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@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. --=-vxdA7qEpJpe/r/Yqa7nN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBBt8p2yQsGN30uGE4RAuFEAJiHDOqwOmkw3LLKh+1sd0wane9+AJ47q53J sym+Mr3aYFhgOVMf+kykSQ== =iVPE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-vxdA7qEpJpe/r/Yqa7nN--
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