Bug#298377: capplets: Attempting to set "File Types and Programs" fails: gnome-file-types-properties no such file or directory

[Chris Metzler]

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On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:07:34 +0100
Josselin Mouette wrote:
>Le dimanche 06 mars 2005 =E0 22:27 -0500, Chris Metzler a =E9crit :
>> When attempting to open a .doc file today, suddenly, the only option
>> available is AbiWord.  I wanted to put oowriter back on the list of
>> options for .doc files, so I headed off to Desktop Preferences -->
>> Advanced --> File Types and Programs.  Doing so generates an error
>> window stating "Cannot launch entry  /  Details: Failed to execute
>> child process `gnome-file-types-properties' (No such file or
>> directory)'
>=20
> How come the icon is still here?
>=20
>> A quick check on p.d.o shows no package in testing or unstable
>> containing such a program.
>=20
> Of course, it was removed in GNOME 2.8.

Hmmm, OK, maybe my bug is misnamed.  If this facility was removed in
2.8, then the 2.8 packages didn't clean it out from my existing GNOME
installation when they were installed, which I would naively have
expected . . .


>> At present, this seems to make it impossible to set applications
>> for mime types.
>=20
> Just right-click on the file and go to the preferences, there's a tab
> for defining the default application.

Is this really the only way to do it now?  If so, then I guess I
should go to gnome.org and file a wishlist bug.  This approach
doesn't work for my case:  where the file is a download from a
link on a website.  The only possibility would be to choose
'Save' rather than 'Open', and *then* bring up Nautilus and
right-click on the file, which is pretty Rube-Goldberg-ish.  Is
it really the case that there is no longer any other way to set
applications for mime types?

Thanks much,

-c

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