Anne Wilson wrote: > I have installed Mandriva 2008.1 with kde4 on two laptops. This one, the > ancient one, is extremely slow, but rock-solid. The Acer, that should have > been an improvement, won't run kontact, saying that it can't find mime type > application/octet-stream. > > What could have gone wrong? It is possible that it can't find it. KDE no longer supplies that MIME type. I found this out when I installed from SVN. For it to work for me, I had to install the XDG MIME package: shared-mime-info So, the question is what Mandriva did about this, and that is a distro question. -- JRT ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.