Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
odd. file-roller uses mime-info to my knowledge.
re-run "/usr/bin/update-desktop-database" as root, and check file-roller
again.
is this issue limited to a particular user ?
I just checked and file-roller works exactly the same for all users (I
tested it with my account, a "general" account created for people who
don't have accounts and the root account). In fact, what is happening
is not that file-roller does not open certain "registered" files is that
it is not opening the ones that I would like it to recognize as a
particular type of file.
Let me explain: I have a source rpm file (which file-roller can open)
with several patch (*.patch) files in the archive. With all the users,
attempting to open the files shows a list of registered text file
editors (eg. Emacs Text Editor, Vi IMproved, OpenOffice.org Writer,
etc.) that can open these files. In fact, when I try to open a
"*.tar.gz" file in the "*.src.rpm" archive, in the list of Available
applications appears "Archive Manager" for all the users, which is
exactly what should happen.
Recently I wanted to browse the xorg documentation (xorg-x11-doc
package) which I downloaded and installed for my system (CentOS 4).
This package contains compressed postscript files (*.PS.gz) which I
need to open with file-roller. When I open these files the postscript
file appears in the archive but when I try to open the postscript file
(from file-roller), there are no "Available applications". If I extract
the file I can then right click on the file in nautilus and select
either "Open with 'PostScript Viewer'" or "Open with 'KGhostView'".
This is where I think file-roller is not doing what it's supposed to
do. Is this wrong? Is there some setting I'm missing? Thanks for
your input, it's very helpful.
PS. I just ran 'update-desktop-database' as root and I got the
following error (Maybe this is my problem?):
[root@sweety ~]$ update-desktop-database
Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/konverter.desktop': Failed
to open file '/usr/share/applications/konverter.desktop': No such file
or directory
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