Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:52:40 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Sean McNeil" <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why only abiword in preferred applications? Message-ID: <opsip2d2zk9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.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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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:45:58 -0800, Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> 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> >> 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@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. Can you show us your pkg_info or `ls /var/db/pkg`? Are there any chance that your apps aren't up to date? Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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