why only abiword in preferred applications?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:45:58 -0800, Sean McNeil <sean at 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 at 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 at 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


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