Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Mimetypes not working for you in KDE4?

If KDE4 mimetypes aren't working, type "kbuildsycoca4" instead of "kbuildsycoca". I believe this change allows for KDE3 and KDE4 apps to coexist. I thought I'd share this since it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to figure it out :)

I also recall someone saying that the "shared-mime-info" package had to be a certain version. So I found a Fedora RPM for 0.17 and upgraded to that (I know that RPM is old but it was the only one I could find quickly). Not sure if it was required though.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you get some crashes, you might also need to do:
 `unset XDG_DATA_DIRS`
before running kbuildsycoca4

Anonymous said...

The 0.17 version of shared-mime-info is not enough indeed. You need some version >= 0.18, although most recent is better.
This reminds me I should change the cmake check to result in an error instead of a simple message if the version is not enough.

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