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[Lou Lipnickey]

Genius!!!! Thank you so much, that is the answer. I will post answer on forum.

On 12/23/21 10:39, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2021, 16:43:43 CET schrieb Lou Lipnickey:
>> I am user of Kdevelop on fedora 34 and a longtime user of Kdevelop. With the
>> most recent update using dnf, Kdevelop does not open .html files so that
>> they can be edited. Other files tried, (.e.g. .js, .txt, sh) are editable
>> There is a lock icon at the bottom left which only appears on .html files. I
>> have checked file permissions and they are all highly permissive.
>> And I have googled extensive kdevelop html lock, kdevelop lock icon, etc all
>> without any meaningful hits.
> Not sure exactly if this is your problem, but recently someone with a similar
> update history hit a similar problem, which could be solved this way:
>
> Please check if you have some file
>      ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-html.xml
> around. If so, remove it, this is a file for some old hack to register the
> default browser, using a custom MIME type. And which seems now to be preferred
> over other MIME type definitions of files with the extension ".html". But
> sadly lacks the information that HTML files are a subtype of plain text files,
> thus KDevelop does not try to load a text editor, but instead tries to load
> whatever KPart is chosen as preferred MIME type handler for
>
> Once you have removed that file, run
>      update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
> so the actual MIME database (generated from those files in mime/packages) used
> (indirectly) by KDevelop is up-to-date and has the normal definition of HTML
> files again, which also defines them as subclass of plain text.
>
> You might need to restart KDevelop first though, perhaps some data is also
> cached in the runtime instance.
>
> Did this solve your issue?
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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