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Re: Solaris GNOME control center problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Thu May 5 17:06:06 2005
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 17:05:54 -0400
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
On 29-Apr-05, at 4:42 PM, Robert A Basch wrote:
> On 9.4.2 Sun, when I bring up GNOME Control Center via the foot menu
> (Settings -> GNOME Control Center), and then try to invoke any of
> the displayed managers (e.g. gtk-theme-selector.desktop), it fails
> with the error (for example):
>
> Couldn't display "preferences:///gtk-theme-selector.desktop".
>
> Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying the file.
>
> Running /usr/athena/bin/gnome-theme-manager works fine.
I investigated this. The problem is that nautilus, via gnome-vfs,
cannot
find the necessary files under /usr/share/mime. On Linux, this
directory
seems to be populated by a post-install scriptlet of the
shared-mime-info
rpm, which runs update-mime-database to generate needed files.
On Solaris, we can get this working by adding the SUNWgome-vfs-share
package to the release, which populates /usr/share/mime, though I'm
wondering if a better solution might not be to configure things to use
/usr/athena/share/...; that might be a lot more work, since currently
we do not have /usr/athena/share/mime, and my trace of nautilus did
not show any attempt to find files there.
Bob
