Places Menu

[NoOp]

On 02/10/2009 12:22 PM, Jean Dewald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After years of Windows (and totally disgusted by Vista), I recently
> switched to Ubuntu 8.10.
> 
> I shouldn't say the conversion was without problems, but I feel much
> more confortable in Ubuntu environment.
> 
> For the moment I bother about 2 problems (please don't laugh, they are
> probably stupid):
> 
> 1) Suddenly, in the Places menu, the 3 first items (Home Folder,Desktop,
> Bookmarks) started the gtkpod program.
> I could delete the reference "open with gtkpod" but of course now I got
> the error "Could not open the location file:///home/...  
> No application is registered as handling the file"
> 
> Some suggestion? 
> Why this sudden change?

It appears that it _may_ be related to this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/260492
[opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly]

Can you please open a terminal (Applications|Terminal) and see if you
have a mimeapps.list file? From the terminal, enter the following commands:

sudo updatedb
locate mimeapps.list

The last command should return something like:

/home/<yourusername>/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

If it does, can you post the output of this command?

cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

If not (no mimeapps.list), then you may try to reinstall nautilus (that
is the app the 'Places' calls):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus nautilus-data

[Note: answer 'y' when it prompts "Do you want to continue"]

And see if that works for you. Note:
> 
> 2) I use the European date format dd/mm/yy.
> After a couple of hours searching I still didn't find where to select
> that format?

Please (again from a terminal) post the output of:

locale

You may also find these links well worth a read:

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Applications
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
<http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/update-locale-config.8.html>

> 
> Thanks for help 
> 
> Jean
> 
>