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R00KIE

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[Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Heads-up on this one, it breaks your file associations, from searching the forum I could find a similar problem quite some time ago and none of the fixes suggested worked except downgrading shared-mime-info.

At the time it seemed that pcmanfm didn't support the new database format of shared-mime-info and now may be the case again.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50667
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10734

Edit:
Marked as solved.

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-10-23 11:02:50)

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SomeGuyDude

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Vouching for this one. No idea what happened.

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sr

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Registered: 2009-10-12

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Same observation here, but thunar works, which is a temporary workaround for now.

Onyros

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

I had to downgrade - used this --> http://www.schlunix.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/ <-- for an older package, and added shared-mime-info to the ignored packages in pacman.conf for now.

Is the bug submitted?

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

I didn't submit any bug because I couldn't decide which package to blame, and didn't see many users complaining about this, shared-mime-info provides a usable database for most programs, that is confirmed by thunar working (which I have tested too, and everyone using kde and gnome didn't complain) so I guess the problem is not completely with shared-mime-info.

On the other hand pcmanfm wasn't updated so there is no update to blame for the breakage.

Now with confirmation that other users are affected I guess a bug report is in order to bring this issue to the devs' attention.

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xd-0

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

I think there's no development of the current pcmanfm. Instead he/she is working on a totaly new rewrite of pcmanfm. http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/

skottish

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

I think there's no development of the current pcmanfm. Instead he/she is working on a totaly new rewrite of pcmanfm. http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/

Which is going to depend on gnome-vfs, which in turn is going to pull in quite a few gnome dependencies. pcmanfm's lightness isn't going to be any less light than thunar anymore.

leprosys

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Fixed in the svn version
http://pcmanfm.svn.sourceforge.net/view … e&view=log

skottish

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Fixed in the svn version
http://pcmanfm.svn.sourceforge.net/view … e&view=log

I can confirm that it works.

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Works for me again too.

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Nixie

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Re: [Solved] Latest shared-mime-info and pcmanfm

Thank you leprosys, this forum is always quick to solve minor update problems