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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] Trouble with '*.doc' mime type in gnome
From:       Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo () fmp ! com>
Date:       2007-07-17 16:10:10
Message-ID: 1184688610.5513.44.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 21:32 -0700, Canek Peláez wrote:
> On 7/16/07, Michael Chaffin <chaffinmichael@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a small problem with Nautilus (nautilus-2.16.3) when double
> > clicking on a Microsoft Word Document  (*.doc)  does /not/  open with
> > Open Office (openoffice-bin-2.2.1).
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > What is my 'vendor'? I am not even sure 'desktop-file-install' is the
> > correct tool. Suggestions please.
> 
> Mmmh. You don't mention it in your mail, so I have to ask: have you
> tried to right click a .doc in nautilus and set the "Open with" tab?
> It works with all the documents of the same mime type, not only with
> the one you right click.

Look in ~/.local/share/applications.  I've had good luck configuring
default file handling applications by adding/modifying files in this
directory.  You'll also want to make sure that your ~/.mime.types or the
global /etc/mime.types file contains a proper entry associating the
filename extension with a MIME type of application/msword.

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