Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:47:27 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why only abiword in preferred applications? Message-ID: <1102564047.19370.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1102563958.64827.16.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1102559213.64667.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <opsipythyg9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <1102563455.64827.12.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1102563958.64827.16.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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--=-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 <sean@mcneil.com> 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--
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