some issues with nautilus MIME associations and thumbnails

Dwaine Garden DwaineGarden at rogers.com
Wed May 26 12:15:23 UTC 2004


Siddharth Toshniwal wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Have been facing a few issues with nautilus for the last
>couple of days. I've upgraded my system (which was originally
>RedHat 9) using up2date using the rawhide channel, so I
>guess I may have some packages which are not working well
>with each other. I don't know exactly which upgrade has
>resulted in these problems, so I'm posting for help if
>anyone has solved similar issues. The details are as follows:
>
>* Nautilus does not show thumbnails for some of the images
>  within one directory while for others (which have the same
>  extension) it does so properly. Opening the images with
>  either eog or gimp does not report any errors.
>
>* I seem to have some problem with *all* my MIME associations
>  (including the ones that are configured by default usually)
>  Even if I associate them manually (.jpg to eog, .doc to
>  star-office and so on), nautilus does not open the same
>  when I double click in the file window. I have to open
>  any documents using the terminal only :( 
>  The file association is shown correctly the next time I
>  double click the file and click on 'Associate', but
>  somehow the association does not work on its own.
>
>The packages that I have installed are:
>  nautilus-media-0.8.0-2
>  nautilus-2.6.0-5
>  shared-mime-info-0.14-1
>  gnome-mime-data-2.4.1-4
>  gnome-vfs2-2.6.0-8
>
>I read up the following article but it is not clear to 
>me yet as to what I've done incorrectly:
>http://www.amitysolutions.com.au/documents/GnomeFiles-technote.pdf
>
>thanks,
>Siddharth.
>
>
>
>  
>
I have the same problem with Konqueror.   No thumbnails previews.

Dwaine.





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