file association handling after re-emerge

[Benedikt Meurer]

Christian B wrote:
> Hi list,
> after re-emerging( reinstall if you don't know gentoo) some Xfce files I 
> noticed that my file-association get messed. My prior choices where 
> still present but mplayer get nutty and tries to open even compressed 
> files like zip and tar (btw: nice pictures). When I choose open with 
> other application and use the real preferred one which resides in the 
> list under mplayer it remembers my choice. Also I wonder why mplayer 
> got his megalomania to be capable dealing with any kind of data.
> Is there someone else with this problem or knows anybody the reason why?
> I won't write a bug report as long as I didn't know if this dependes on 
> Gentoo or Xfce.

Maybe mplayer was registered to handle application/octet-stream. Check
the .desktop files in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/ and be sure to rerun
update-desktop-database appropriately (Gentoo should do this
automatically tho). In any case, the MIME associations aren't Xfce
specific and Xfce doesn't mess that up on it's own - the user is of
course free to mess it up at will :-) - so it's most probably a problem
with Gentoo.

> greez
>   Christian

Benedikt