[Resolved?] Re: Nautilus file .exe file associations

[NoOp]

Matthew Kuiken wrote:
>> Anybody?
>> 
>> After a little more research I found that I am not the only one with
>> this problem, see:
>> 
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=cab6e36d1f572ba0cdd6dff5ba23d412&t=187777&highlight=Nautilus+%2B.exe+file+association
>> [File association with .exe]
>> 
>> I'm not into deleting entire .local directories so I'd prefer to figure
>> out the problem some other way.
>> 
>> Anybody?
>> 
>> 
> 
> I don't have this problem, as I don't use wine, but I would bet that 
> deleting ~/.local/share/mime would do the trick, rather than needing to 
> delete the whole tree.  This will probably still require you to set up 
> any mime types you changed locally for yourself, but would not lose menu 
> entries and the like.
> 
> To test the theory, I would recommend moving the directory somewhere 
> else, log out, and log back in, then check if nautilus still has a 
> problem.  If there are settings that are lost by this, and you really 
> want them back, you can just move the folder back from where you moved 
> it to.  Always back things like this up before you try the nuclear option...
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 

What I did is copy the ~/.local directory to a backup folder, then
instead of deleting the original, I renamed the ~/.local/share/ folder
to ~/.local/share_old/. I also renamed the subfolder ~/.local/share/mime
to ~/.local/share/mime_old. That worked, even after a reboot. All the
Applications menus are intact & working, all the file associations seem
to now be working and correct, and double-clicking the applicable files
in Nautilus brings up the proper associated applications.

Now I guess the question would be: why did that work?

Taking a look through the GNOME bugzilla reports for 2.13/2.14 (I have
2.14.3) shows a considerable amount of opened bugs for Nautilus (136):

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/gnome-214-report.html

GNOME 2.15/2.16 shows 46
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/gnome-216-report.html). So perhaps it
is a GNOME/Nautilus problem rather than Ubuntu related.