Le lundi 07 mars 2005 Ã 21:24 -0500, Chris Metzler a Ãcrit :
> > Of course, it was removed in GNOME 2.8.
> 
> Hmmm, OK, maybe my bug is misnamed.  If this facility was removed in
> 2.8, then the 2.8 packages didn't clean it out from my existing GNOME
> installation when they were installed, which I would naively have
> expected . . .

That's what should happen, indeed. What's the result of the
"find .gnome2 -name \*.desktop" command?

> > Just right-click on the file and go to the preferences, there's a tab
> > for defining the default application.
> 
> Is this really the only way to do it now?  If so, then I guess I
> should go to gnome.org and file a wishlist bug.  This approach
> doesn't work for my case:  where the file is a download from a
> link on a website.  The only possibility would be to choose
> 'Save' rather than 'Open', and *then* bring up Nautilus and
> right-click on the file, which is pretty Rube-Goldberg-ish.  Is
> it really the case that there is no longer any other way to set
> applications for mime types?

Things are meant so that when there is an application that can open the
file installed, it will be launched.
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