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Re: nautilus: cannot double-click *.doc or *.pdf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed May 25 13:53:38 2005
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: jmorzins@mit.edu
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62L.0505241601250.4814@dale.mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53:26 -0400
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:09, jmorzins@MIT.EDU wrote:
> With a clean test account on a 9.4.5 beta machine, double-clicking *.doc
> or *.pdf files gives me an error dialog.
Thanks for reporting this.
The main problem here is that gnome-vfs is configured to look for
system application settings only under /usr/share and /usr/local/share.
Rather than change the several places where this path seems to be
hard-coded, we can deal with this by setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variable in the standard dotfiles. We will also need to
create /usr/athena/share/applications/defaults.list (to specify the
default applications for various MIME types), and .desktop files for
non-GNOME apps such as acroread.
Bob
