Re: Dead Gnome MIME settings

From: Alex Malinovich (demonbane_at_the-love-shack.net)
Date: 08/20/04

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:33:41 -0500

    On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:50 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
    > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 15:25:17 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
    > > Yeah, I forgot to mention that little part which I suppose probably could
    > > have been rather important. So yes, I'm using experimental.
    >
    > In that case, this is expected breakage. GNOME 2.8 will use a new MIME
    > system (see http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1885), and this is
    > reflected in the GNOME 2.7 development branch (see e.g.
    > http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1893).
    >
    > The configuration applet that's giving you these errors,
    > /usr/bin/gnome-file-types-properties, is part of the `capplets' package,
    > built from the `control-center' source package. There is no GNOME 2.7
    > version of that package packaged yet for experimental. The GNOME 2.6 version
    > is for use with the older MIME system; it doesn't work for the new one.

    You hit the nail right on the head! I checked the versions of installed
    packages, and sure enough, capplets was still at 2.6 while libgnomevfs
    and friends were at 2.7. I downgraded libgnomevfs2-(0|common) to 2.6 and
    all is well now. Many thanks! :) 

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