gimp and new mime handling in gnome 2.8

[Franz Klammer]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:09:10 +0200, Franz Klammer 
> <klammer at webonaut.com>  wrote:
> 
>> gimp does not appear in the context menu for graphics
>> since i updated to gnome 2.8 last friday.
> 
> 
> What's version of gimp? 2.0.4 or 2.1.5? I recently installed gimp in 
> three  minutes ago to test and it appeared in the menu just fine. Have 
> you  restart gnome-panel or desktop yet if you don't have nor use fam?
> 

still 2.0.4 - there is no MimeType information in the desktop-file of
this version. i've added them manualy. maybe that wasn't necessary but
if it doesn't hurt... ;-)

>> adding MimeType(s) from application-registry to
>> applications/gimp-2.0.desktop didn't help.
>>
>> is there anything else to do or than adding
>> MimeType to the desktop-file?
> 
> 
> Run update-desktop-database as in root to rebuild the mimetype database.

done in the meantime - thanks!

i tracked this down myself after writing my question but it didn't work.
after joe has confirmed with his mal that i must run it i looked a little
bit more exactly and saw that i must use semicolons not commas to
seperate the mime types. ;-)

franz.

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
>> franz.
> 
> 
>