I have tried a few Debian, Progeny, Storm and Libranet installs. On each I can successfully set up file associations for GMC using the Filetypes and Programs option in Control Center. As soon as I upgrade to Woody or Unstable, I can't. I can go through the motions of assigning an application and icon in Control Center, but it has no effect on the actual file icons. When I try and open them I get the application chooser, and my chosen icon is not displayed.
When this has happened with basic desktop icons in the past I have deleted the file ~/.gnome/metadata.db and this has curied the problem. This does not help with this particular problem. I have even tried renaming/moving ~/.gnome altogether. I have even created a new user and still I can't set up the associations. It doesn't seem to matter whether I use Debian Gnome of Ximian Gnome. Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround? -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \
