In gnome-2.8, the program gnome-default-applications-properties does not remember Text Editor settings. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run gnome-default-applications-properties 2. Click on the Text Editor tab 3. Attempt to change any preference under this tab Actual Results: This error message is given with every object you click on: (gnome-default-applications-properties:3240): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function. User modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported. The changes are not saved. Expected Results: The preferred application preferences should be saved. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.50-r11 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/hda1/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://206.75.217.180/ ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/hda1/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dedicated doc dvd encode esd evo foomatic foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jfs jikes jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline reiserfs ruby samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xrandr xv zlib"
They're aware of this upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152263
