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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 2004 21:04:43 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Anton Alin-Adrian <aanton@spintech.ro>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gnome 2.8 mime associations
Message-ID:  <1096679083.97192.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <415DFD6B.8050607@spintech.ro>
References:  <415DFD6B.8050607@spintech.ro>

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

Define, "completely broken."

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> 	I reinstalled gnome-mime from ports, latest nautilus. The gnome-vfs from=
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> the tinderbox is the latest.
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> 	Apparantely gnome control center from the tinderbox does not come with t=
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> 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.

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> 	The mimes in /usr/X11R6/share.. appear to be allright, i tried copying=20
> them in the $HOME/.gnome/mime-info/ dir but without effect.
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> 	So not only that all mimes are broken, but I also can't add them manuall=
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> (or i did it in the wrong way by using vi)
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> 	If would really appreciate if anyone knows some possible fix for this an=
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> 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

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