Over the years, suse have chopped and changed packages a lot. With my machine now running 9.0, a lot of the file associations are obsolete (trying to play .MPG files with kmplayer is rather optimistic because kmplayer no longer exists. The obvious solution: - fire up 'Control Centre' - go to 'KDE components' - select 'File Associations' and start editing. It would be good if there was an entry for 'remove all associations where the target program no longer exists', but there ain't. Now the fun starts. I removed a large number of duplicate and dead entries by hand before finally hitting 'apply'. A short wait and back it came. Clicking on a .MPG gave me an error-message that kmplayer no longer exists (doh, I *knew* that) ok, exit kde and restart Clicking on a .MPG gave me an error-message that kmplayer no longer exists (doh, I still *knew* that) Going back to 'Control Centre' -> 'KDE components' -> 'File Associations' showed that: - changes I had made in the 'known types' column had worked, some entries there had been duplicated - changes I made in the 'Application Preference Order' had all vanished into thin air. Trying to repeat a few of them even caused the Control Centre to abort. There are a couple of other problems I have with the kde configuration (the tabs at the bottom for the 4 virtal desktops have vanished) where I am starting to wonder if it is not best to completely rebuild the kde configuration files for this user. Is this a sensible way forward and which files/directories should I nuke? A full backup of /home will obviously be my friend ;-) The kde version is what comes with 9.0 but with all updates applied. -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 16:29, Andrew Williams wrote:
Over the years, suse have chopped and changed packages a lot. With my machine now running 9.0, a lot of the file associations are obsolete (trying to play .MPG files with kmplayer is rather optimistic because kmplayer no longer exists.
The obvious solution: - fire up 'Control Centre' - go to 'KDE components' - select 'File Associations' and start editing. It would be good if there was an entry for 'remove all associations where the target program no longer exists', but there ain't.
Very good idea..
Now the fun starts. I removed a large number of duplicate and dead entries by hand before finally hitting 'apply'. A short wait and back it came. (SNIP) - changes I had made in the 'known types' column had worked, some entries there had been duplicated
First off: I'm not expert on this in any way, I've only been tinkering with associations too. Filetypes, MIME types, extensions are always cached in ram, and uses a KDE database: sycoca, its the one keeping track of these entries. Appearantly it does not refresh/rebuild the entire database by default -- could be the reason you saw duplicate entries. You should do that manually when you make "too many"? changes: As a regular user.. # kbuildsycoca --noincremental ..if you see any errors, it probably indicates broken/ left over "xxx.desktop" files. Find your broken "xxx.desktop" entries here: ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/ ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/video/ Remove the broken xxx.desktop files. Its easy to check -- you should be able to left click these files and not get an error. After that, rebuild the *entire* cache and database: # kbuildsycoca --noincremental Well.. this might help a little..and get you on the right track.. jk -- Suse Linux 9.0 | 2.4.21-144-smp4G | KDE 3.1.4 | XFree86 v4.3.0.1
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