Bug 99990

Summary:	Adding or deleting MIME types don't work
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc>
Component:	kcm_filetypes	Assignee:	Marie Loise Nolden <nolden>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Iñaki Baz Castillo 2005-02-22 13:40:00 UTC

Version:           3.3.2 (using KDE 3.3.2,  (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.7-ck6

For example:

-Go to "Preferences" - "Configure Konqueror..." - "File Asociations"
-Click in "audio" / "x-mp3".
-There appear the asocciated programs to open mp3 files.
-Choose one, for example XMMS, select it.
-Press "Edit..." and go to "Application" tab.
-There appear all the MIME types asociated with XMMS.
-Try to add more or delete existing MIME asociations (for example delete all the MIME types asociated to XMMS).
-Press "OK".
-Look into the "audio" MIME types and XMMS still is a asociated program. Nothing has changed.
-The same occurs adding MIME types.

Because this bug, if I want to delete a program from the list I have to delete manually the program in all the MIME types that it appears.

Comment 1 Iñaki Baz Castillo 2005-03-16 18:17:59 UTC

Now I use KDE 3.4 and I see a difference:

-The problem is only with XMMS (and more programs, but not for example with Kghostview).
-I try to do the same as above.
-After delete some existing MIME asociations and press OK, there appears a error box: "Impossible to save the propereties. You don't have permision to write in /usr/share/applications/XMMS.desktop.

I understand the problem of the premisions, so, do I have to open Konqueror as root to delete these MIME asociations for all the users?

Comment 2 David Faure 2008-03-04 02:08:34 UTC

KDE4: the mimetypes are not in the properties dialog for a .desktop file anymore, on purpose, so this bug cannot happen anymore.

However I can see that this is another vote for "removing all associations for one application", like 61582.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61582 ***