Thanks a lot for valuable suggestions. By running update-mime-database
~/.local/share/mime/ my GNOME applications work again :).

Hung


Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:55:31 +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Hung Dang wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>> After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications
>>> have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when
>>> trying to open stadict
>>> "Can not load image. Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
>>> '/usr/share/pixmaps/stardict.png'" and this problem happened to at
>>> least two of my machines.
>>> Does anyone know what is going on with my system? I use KDE 4.3.2 then
>>> only gtk USE flag is enabled on my box. Please see the output of
>>> emerge --info in the attached file for more information.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>> Hung
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> # update-mime-database /usr/share/mime-info
>>     
>
> This doesn't exist here.
>
>   
>> # update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
>>     
>
> This is done by the ebuild, you need to do it for /usr/local/share/mime
> and it should be done as root.
>
>   
>> % update-mime-database ~/.config/mime
>>     
>
> This should be ~/.local/share/mime/ and needs to be run by each user.
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288312 contains the details, and
> the elog from emerging shared-mime-info also covers the details now,
> although it didn't when the current version was first added to portage.
>
>
>   


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