File associations disappear

Ze mmodem00 at netvisao.pt
Mon May 10 13:16:01 BST 2004


To put the apps running with the extensions that we want, forget kde, and put 
them in menudrake.
For example i instaled Firefox so i needed to add an attribute, and add this:

mimetypes
text/html

For Acrobat Reader i put:

mimetypes
text/pdf;text/x-pdf;application/pdf;application/x-pdf


Em Segunda, 10 de Maio de 2004 12:57, Robin Rosenberg escreveu:
> 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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