FS#6117 - File Associations / Mimetypes Broken in New GNOME Install

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Sunday, 31 December 2006, 03:22 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 26 April 2007, 20:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

On a fresh install of GNOME (after a new install of .8) there are no default filetype associations forcing the user to manually configure the desktop MIME database. Can be fixed with "update-desktop-database" as root. Perhaps the gnome-mime-data or shared-mime-info packages should be updated to include this in their scripts.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 20:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Should be fixed with the current version of gnome, couldn't reproduce it on a clean install and all gnome applications that register MIME types in their desktop files run update-desktop-database now.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Sunday, 31 December 2006, 09:21 GMT
pacman -Suy, should be fixed with the latest glib2
Comment by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Sunday, 31 December 2006, 20:47 GMT
Doesn't seem to do it. I reinstalled Arch today on a different fs...same problem when GNOME comes up, absolutely no file associations, with the most recent glib2 as of today at around 9pm GMT.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Sunday, 31 December 2006, 20:53 GMT
version ?
Comment by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Sunday, 31 December 2006, 20:58 GMT
glib2 2.12.6-3
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 01 January 2007, 23:40 GMT
This issue existed on my system with older glib2 version (and update-desktop-database didn't help), but glib2 2.12.6-3 fixed this for me.
Maybe this is due to the fact that in your case this happened on new install, while in mine - on upgrade. :-/
Comment by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Monday, 01 January 2007, 23:52 GMT
I suspect it happens because it's a new install, which means every new ARCH user who installs GNOME is going to have this problem, which is a big headache when you have to manually configure each filetype. It's a simple fix though, if you have the gnome-mime-data package run update-desktop-database as part of the post-install scripts.
Comment by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 01:48 GMT
Update...installed Arch on a new machine today. Same problem. Again update-desktop-database as root fixed it.

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