GNOME 2.6 problems with mime-types
 

Hello,

I installed GNOME 2.6 directly from sources and I have some problems.

1) gnome-help doesn't run exactly how one would expect. It starts ok. But when I try to load any documentation gedit starts and I only see an xml document in it's source form.
2) gnome-file-properties doesn't influence nautilus in any way. Nautilus simply doesn't see any MIME Types.

This is the raw form of my problems.

I did a lot of searching on the Internet and I found out that my only true problem is the fact that MIME types aren't seen by the system. This is really frustrating. I can't view help files with the gnome-help application, I can't browse image directories with gThumb, I can't even set a background image.

It seems, as I found out that other people had similar problems when upgrading to GNOME 2.4. Is there somebody who can help me?

More details:
If I try to add a new MIME type using Nautilus (right click-> open With-> An application) any change I make is not seen by GNOME since if I start gnome-file-properties it isn't displayed there. The irony is that when I launch gnome-file-properties a lot of files have associated applications but I can't use any of it. What is tha problem. I struggled with this for two month now. Please help me, or at least point me to a site, a person or somebody who might.

Thank you

Did you install http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info shared-mime-info?

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No worries. I made the same mistake the first time I installed Gnome-2.6 http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5971 shared-mime-info is listed in the installation order http://www.gnome.org/start/2.6/notes...tallation.html but it wasn't mentioned in the version of Beyond Linux From Scratch I was following at the time and as none of the packages failed to compile I wasn't aware there was anything missing...