My Gnome MIME settings appear to have suddenly died. If I go into Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> File types and programs the only category I see is Internet Services. When I try to do things on the desktop, I get "no action associated with" errors. I've tried reinstalling libgnomevfs2-0 as well as gnome-mime-data to no avail. Looking in ~/.xsession-errors after launching 'File types and programs' I see the following:
(gnome-file-types-properties:3273): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function. User modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this further? A probably related item of note here is that I recently had to restore my /etc and /home directories from a backup. I did a "cp -a" so permissions, etc, should all have been preserved, but it's possible that something got fouled up at some point. Unfortunately, aside from the things I mentioned above, I don't know what else to troubleshoot. (As much as I love Gnome some of the more obscure files and settings that it uses make me think back to my days of suffering in Windows.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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