[Solved] krusader "forgets" mime types

andi456 · Last edited by andi456 on Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:58 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

another issue occured after my last update: my favourite file manager krusader "forgot" all its mime types so that I always have to choose a suitable application to open for example a .pdf file. This wouldn't be an issue, if krusader "remembered" the association of for example okular to a .pdf. Instead, if I try to set it via the settings submenu, the new entry is being deleted.

So I started krusader from the terminal emulator and got at least some hints:

CooSee · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1528 Location: Earth

do you have kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools installed ?

what does xdg-mime query default application/pdf as User say ? - type in terminal.

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andi456 · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:58 am Post subject:

Actually, I was about to post solution. kde-cli-tools is part of it, but in addition to that, I had to symlink /etc/xdg/menus/kf5-applications.menu to /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, i.e., as root user

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9348

What desktop environment do you use that does not provide an applications.menu itself?

Because obviously, kf5-applications.menu will be gone at some point as well and only remains on your system by chance of being pulled in by some other random package than krusader.

andi456 · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:07 pm Post subject:

qfile tells me that /etc/xdg/menus/kf5-applications.menu belongs to kde-frameworks/kservice:5, whereas kde-frameworks/kservice:6 does not seem to have installed any file in the same directory.