Hi, Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sat, Feb 05, 2005:
> Did you see the second message I sent to this bug? I independently > came to much the same conclusion. I now consider the true bug to be > that you have to have nautilus installed in order to make the mime > bindings work at all. (I was able to add xpdf as an alternative to > gpdf by going through nautilus' file associations panel.) Since I adopted Galeon, I looked multiple times at this bug report and wondered what was going on (and couldn't figure it out), but re-reading it again, I think I come to some logical conclusions: - gpdf calls the "update-desktop-database" tool to register its gpdf.desktop file (describing the gpdf application) in the various databases (for example MIME-type to application database), - this only works if the update-desktop-database tool is available and this tool is in the desktop-file-utils package, - nautilus depends on desktop-file-utils. This explains why installing nautilus and then gpdf solved the problem for you. I don't know what the correct solution for this problem truly is, but only the gnome-gv and nautilus packages actually depend on desktop-file-utils. Maybe all applications making use of update-desktop-database to register MIME types should recommend the desktop-file-utils package? I'll bring that to the debian-gtk-gnome list ASAP. Regards, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
