From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 03:48:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC3116A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC7443D1F for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 03:48:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) iB93n0Yo025078; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:49:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Sean McNeil In-Reply-To: <1102563958.64827.16.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1102559213.64667.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1102563455.64827.12.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1102563958.64827.16.camel@server.mcneil.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-etpA6wFSvlhE8T3exgVu" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:47:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1102564047.19370.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: why only abiword in preferred applications? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:48:19 -0000 --=-etpA6wFSvlhE8T3exgVu Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 wro= te: > > >=20 > > > > I cannot get gedit or anything else showing in the Default Text Edi= tor > > > > tab. Select an Editor only shows abiword now. I've reinstalled > > > > gnomecontrolcenter2 and a few other things along with gedit2. Noth= ing > > > > 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 f= ile =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 mime= type =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 i= t > > 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. >=20 > Sorry to reply to my own message, but... >=20 > I took a look at my .xsession-errors and bingo! Here is the error when > running from a terminal: >=20 > [sean@server sean]$ gnome-default-applications-properties >=20 > (gnome-default-applications-properties:65144): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: > Deprecated function. User modifications to the MIME database are no > longer supported. >=20 > 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 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-etpA6wFSvlhE8T3exgVu 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) iD8DBQBBt8rPb2iPiv4Uz4cRAk8nAKCEBgrks+y8vjqhTM8dwsdV1dd5rgCgpxDN fFtwXXRo3x0eGDFp5TWDFrI= =Ktjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-etpA6wFSvlhE8T3exgVu--