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[Jean Dewald]

Hello,

mimeapps exists!  I got following answer:

jean at QIPSG01:~$ locate mimeapps.list
/home/jean/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

jean at QIPSG01:~$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

[Added Associations]
x-content/image-dcf=f-spot-import.desktop;gnome-appearance-properties.desktop;banshee-1.desktop;
application/octet-stream=userapp-gtkpod-JA7JOU.desktop;
application/x-extension-volume=userapp-gtkpod-JA7JOU.desktop;
audio/x-wav=totem.desktop;
inode/directory=
image/jpeg=eog.desktop;gimp.desktop;

[Removed Associations]
audio/x-wav=brasero-open-project.desktop;userapp-aplaymidi-0FOGOU.desktop;userapp-acpi_listen-ZR6OOU.desktop;ooo-template.desktop;totem-gstreamer.desktop;rhythmbox.desktop;userapp-gtkpod-JA7JOU.desktop;evince.desktop;nautilus-autorun-software.desktop;
inode/directory=userapp-gtkpod-JA7JOU.desktop;kde4-cervisia.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;

Is that any help?

Anyway thanks for your time!

Jean



On wo, 2009-02-11 at 12:38 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/10/2009 12:22 PM, Jean Dewald wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After years of Windows (and totally disgusted by Vista), I recently
> > switched to Ubuntu 8.10.
> > 
> > I shouldn't say the conversion was without problems, but I feel much
> > more confortable in Ubuntu environment.
> > 
> > For the moment I bother about 2 problems (please don't laugh, they are
> > probably stupid):
> > 
> > 1) Suddenly, in the Places menu, the 3 first items (Home Folder,Desktop,
> > Bookmarks) started the gtkpod program.
> > I could delete the reference "open with gtkpod" but of course now I got
> > the error "Could not open the location file:///home/...  
> > No application is registered as handling the file"
> > 
> > Some suggestion? 
> > Why this sudden change?
> 
> It appears that it _may_ be related to this bug:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/260492
> [opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly]
> 
> Can you please open a terminal (Applications|Terminal) and see if you
> have a mimeapps.list file? From the terminal, enter the following commands:
> 
> sudo updatedb
> locate mimeapps.list
> 
> The last command should return something like:
> 
> /home/<yourusername>/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
> 
> If it does, can you post the output of this command?
> 
> cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
> 
> If not (no mimeapps.list), then you may try to reinstall nautilus (that
> is the app the 'Places' calls):
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus nautilus-data
> 
> [Note: answer 'y' when it prompts "Do you want to continue"]
> 
> And see if that works for you. Note:
> > 
> > 2) I use the European date format dd/mm/yy.
> > After a couple of hours searching I still didn't find where to select
> > that format?
> 
> Please (again from a terminal) post the output of:
> 
> locale
> 
> You may also find these links well worth a read:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Applications
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
> <http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/update-locale-config.8.html>
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for help 
> > 
> > Jean
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>