Bug#284456: libgnomevfs2-0: cannot change filetypes when evolution won't suggest applications to handle attachments

[Olivier Berger]

Package: libgnomevfs2-0
Version: 2.8.3-6
Severity: normal


I'm using evolution and I just received PDF attachments in emails.
Evolution only prompts for gpdf to open the files, without prompting 
for the previous setting I had made in the gnome file properties tool, 
which was xpdf.

If I try to review my settings for PDF mime-type in
gnome-file-types-properties, I get a :

(gnome-file-types-properties:4477): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated
function.  User modifications to the MIME database are no longer
supported.

There seems to be a problem with the recent upgrading to gnome 2.8 on
some of the tools, which renders previous settings for mime types
inoperant.

I found the following thread which describes the same kind of problem : 
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2004-December/040803.html
and
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/08/msg06834.html

I think that, although I noticed the problem in evolution and the message
in gnome-file-types-properties, the problem is indeed with gnome-vfs

How can I change my PDF mimetype file associations now ?

Many thanks in advance.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-200411171
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 depends on:
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.8.0-3      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.8.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.7-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.8.3-6      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11                 1.0.16-9     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libxml2                     2.6.11-5     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-3    compression library - runtime

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