Globally busted MIME in 2.7.90

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:34:16 -0400, Christopher Nehren  
<apeiron at comcast.net> wrote:

> I've been tracking GNOME 2.7 for a while now, and I noticed that after
> the new MIME scheme was introduced that Nautilus refuses to open
> things[1] with an error message:
>
> "Couldn't display ${FILE}.
>
> There was an error launching the application."
>
> In addition to this, all of my directories in Nautilus open in catalogue
> view by default, which is pretty useless as it doesn't display any icons
> whatsoever unless I browse to a directory with only images. I've done
> my best to make sure that I'm running the latest version of everything
> (I just upgraded gnomevfs2, as a matter of fact), and I've tried using a
> dummy user to verify that it's not my user's settings. The dummy user
> sees the same problems. Am I the only one experiencing this?
>
> [1]: This happens with everything: HTML files, .pod files, images, etc.
> I also don't have the nice context menus shown on the "What's new in
> GNOME 2.8?" site.

Strange, because everything mime system works perfect here. *.torrent will  
open with bittornado, *.html will open with browser, *.txt will open  
gedit, so I just added *.c to open in either gvim and gedit and it just  
works fine. It doesn't forget anything when I reboot or whatever.

Cheers,
Mezz


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