This is a followup from bug 44798 and bug 45337. To reproduce:

(1) Launch Nautilus
(2) Choose some file whose MIME type you know. I've been using RPM files (.rpm)
for my tests.
(3) Right click on the file and choose "Open with > Other Application ...".
(4) Click the Go There button to visit the File Types and Programs control panel
capplet.
(5) Find the MIME type from step (2) in the list, and select it.
(6) Click the "change icon" button and choose a different icon for this MIME
type. Click OK.

At this point, in an ideal world, the file from step (2) should immediately
update to show the new icon. But it doesn't. That's the bug.

However, if you do anything in Nautilus that causes MIME data to be re-fetched,
such as clicking Refresh or visiting another location (even in another window),
the icons will all update properly, even the ones already showing. Since it's so
easy to make the icons update, making them do so automatically is a pretty
low-priority bug.



------- Additional Comments From brett@eazel.com 2001-03-12 19:47:19 ----

(sorry for the spam, making self qa contact)



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-13 09:52:01 ----

I'm not sure how to fix this given the fact that you can't use gconf in code
called by a control center applet. We can probably fix it pretty easily when
we're on the GTK 2.0 code base, since that code base will presumably not have
the gconf-vs-control-center problem.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:53 -------
Bug depends on bug(s) 45460.