File associations disappear

Robin Rosenberg robin.rosenberg at dewire.com
Mon May 10 12:57:53 BST 2004


This happens to me too, on all machines. 

-- robin

On Monday 10 May 2004 13.11, Ze wrote:
> Don't even exist the dirs that you say. but anyway i delet the desktop
> files in ~/kde/share/applnk-mdk and the problem still continues!
>
> Em Domingo, 9 de Maio de 2004 05:55, James Richard Tyrer escreveu:
> > Ze wrote:
> > > I use Mandrake10.0 Official with kde3.2.0
> > > For example i associate html to open with firefox, passed some time all
> > > the associations i made simply disappear.
> > > How is this possible?!
> > >
> > > The associations disapear after for example i intall a rpm, and when i
> > > change the menus.
> > >
> > > Any help?
> >
> > A possible solution:
> >
> > If you associate a MIME type with an application for which there is both
> > an old 'desktop' file somewhere in: "$KDEDIR/share/applnk/ ... " and a
> > new 'desktop' file in: "$KDEDIR/share/applications/kde/" then strange
> > things sometimes happen.  The solution is to delete the old 'desktop'
> > file.
> >
> > This can also happen with your local 'desktop' files
> > "$HOME/.kde/share/applnk/ ... /*.desktop" and
> > "$HOME/.local/share/applications/kde-*.desktop
> >
> > --
> > JRT
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