On 9/28/07, Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/28/07, Robert Moonen <rmoonen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Bjørge Solli wrote: > > > Robert Moonen wrote: > > >> Bjørge Solli wrote: > > >>> Robert Moonen wrote: > > >>>> Afief Halumi wrote: > > >>>>> I'd like to add that the same horrible problem happens when opening > > >>>>> PHP files that happen to not be PHP files. > > >>>>> I wonder why so much empathis is put on the file extension when Unix > > >>>>> systems usually don't give a damn about them anyway $ file filename > > >>>>> and you know if it's ASCII or an MP3 or whatever. > > >>>> Because KDE and now Gnome are trying to behave like Windoze, because > > >>>> the > > >>>> way to make a desktop popular seems to be to appease the lowest common > > >>>> denominator. > > >>>> > > >>>>> This warning is just as annoying for me as vista's "cancel or allow", > > >>>>> it should be the responsibility of the program(text editor? audio > > >>>>> player?) not to cause a security risk when trying to open a weird > > >>>>> file. > > >>>> Change your gnome preferences. > > >>> That is exactly my question; How? > > >>> > > >>> As I stated in the initial email, my attempts to alter the prefs have > > >>> failed. > > >> > > >> Find object in "my computer", right click on it, select preferences, > > >> then open the "opens with" tab. If adding an application to open that > > >> object with doesn't become visible in the list of applications allowed > > >> to open that object. Then it needs to be fixed and should be reported as > > >> a bug. > > > > > > That is just the thing. It does get available in the list of > > > applications allowed to open that object, and I mark the Text Editor the > > > default (by selecting it in the list). If I right click on it and select > > > "open with", then all available options except the one I chose as > > > default appears, and choosing e.g. NEdit makes NEdit open the file. But > > > if I double click the file it will not open and the warning appears as > > > before. > > > > > > Can anyone confirm that this is a bug? > > > > Just tested the default switching on a .jpg file and it all seems to > > work just fine. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFG/ScOR3H8POzUb78RAvm7AJ4/cPUNd7V+YXoVzC0PFH1e0qt5WACdE2fH > > RIc5ce0ZmH5h37FHMx48RRg= > > =iSTX > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-list mailing list > > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > > > I have also had problems like this. When looking around in nautilus > just now, I found that I am getting "cannot open file" errors from the > default program (using a double-click on the file), HOWEVER, if I > right-click to "Open with other application" and use the same program > (the default), it works fine, and AFTER that, the double click also > works fine. > > EXCEPT: I have a directory with some jpgs in it, and the image viewer > cannot seem to identify or locate the others while I have it running, > so the next file and previous file arrows do not work, either - I have > to open each one individually. > > Nicola Buso suggested that I remove the .local/share/mime directory in > my account, so the first time I had this problem, I did that, and it > worked. This time it does not. If I open the files as root, > everything works fine, so I'm thinking that it's the global mime > descriptions, but I don't know where they live in order to fix them. > > I've also noticed that sometimes nautilus will show a thumbnail of a > file and sometimes not, depending on the file, even though they are > the same type. E.g., in my jpg directory, some of the thumbnails show > and some are the generic icon for unopened files, some are the generic > icon for jpgs. I suspect that this may be related, but I'm not sure. > > Anyone with better knowledge of this situation care to comment? > > All help will be appreciated.... > > Thanks. > > mhr > Aha! Found an (the?) answer. It was a permissions problem, on most of the files in /usr/share/mime. Most of them were perms 640 (!!!), so I changed them (as root) to 644 and all now works as it should. Try that. mhr _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
