[gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

[gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

[amar.cosic]

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Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +0000, amar.cosic@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if
> I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer
> (gedit i guess). And If I go right click>properties>open with> then
> chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after
> that it will try to open every file type in Totem ie. .txt .zip .. Its
> like it doesnt recognize and assign right aplication to file type. Any
> sugestions on this?
> 

I've never seen this before. Something is really messed up.  BTW
"Document Viewer" is usually Evince.

Well you didn't specify what version of GNOME you are using.  Perhaps
your
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/application-registry is hosed.

-a

Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +0000, amar.cosic@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello list
>>
>> I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if
>> I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer
>> (gedit i guess). And If I go right click>properties>open with> then
>> chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after
>> that it will try to open every file type in Totem ie. .txt .zip .. Its
>> like it doesnt recognize and assign right aplication to file type. Any
>> sugestions on this?
>>
>
> I've never seen this before. Something is really messed up.  BTW
> "Document Viewer" is usually Evince.
>
> Well you didn't specify what version of GNOME you are using.  Perhaps
> your
> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/application-registry is hosed.
>
> -a

We are seeing something similar here on my wife's machine. All the
file associations started going to gedit and we're having to
reassociate file types with applications. It seems that somehow it
starts using the most recent association as the default for the next
unknown file type. Once we set things up then the app seems to stick
with the file type.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

[Amar Cosic]

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Amar Ćosić
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +0000, amar.cosic@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello list
> >
> > I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if
> > I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer
> > (gedit i guess). And If I go right click>properties>open with> then
> > chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after
> > that it will try to open every file type in Totem ie. .txt .zip .. Its
> > like it doesnt recognize and assign right aplication to file type. Any
> > sugestions on this?
> >
>
> I've never seen this before. Something is really messed up.  BTW
> "Document Viewer" is usually Evince.
>
> Well you didn't specify what version of GNOME you are using.  Perhaps
> your
> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list,
> /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/application-registry is
> hosed.
>
> -a
>
>
>
> Gnome is 2.22.3 and its new for me too. This is only 20-ish day old
installation,and for first 10 days it acctualy worked OK.My mimeapps.list
looks like this:

[Added Associations]
video/x-msvideo=totem.desktop;
text/plain=totem-usercustom.desktop;evince.desktop;file-roller.desktop;

mimeinfo.cache is here http://omploader.org/vMTk0YQ and
gnome-vfs.applications from application-registry is here
http://omploader.org/vMTk0Yg

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