Twas said by " Michael Nottebrock" and my ignorance encourages me to join
the dialogue
> On Friday, 13. May 2005 01:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Am I to understand these warnings
>> do not mean that the mimetypes only become available  when the
>> applications that need them have been launched?
>
> KDE applications come with .desktop files (which contain metadata like
> mime-type associations, actual exectable name etc). A few of these files
> have
> contents which kdeinit fails to parse, mostly because they aren't meant
> for
> kdeinit but other applications (for example koffice uses the .desktop
> files
> of the individual office applications for embedding into other
> applications
> or into the koffice workspace). kdeinit will ignore entries it cannot
> understand, but print the warnings you have seen.
>
> In general, kde applications and certain baseline kde components (like
> kdeinit) tend to be rather verbose on stdout/stderr if run from the
> command
> line, this rarely indicates that something is genuinely wrong however.
Thank you for taking the time to explain..
It is much appreciated
david



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