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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#2427: KFM & MIME types
From:       Cameron Newham <cam () sspl ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-12-17 20:18:53
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Package: KFM (file manager)
Version: the version supplied with RedHat Linux 6.1
         (sorry - don't have KDE here to check).

I find it very hard to figure out how to associate an application with
a file type. Indeed, even after reading the manual for KFM I can't work
it out. The manual is just confusing (eg: where it talks about loading
in a new application and talks about seeing what ones are available by
pressing the "right mouse button" - where?! In KFM?  In the desktop?).

That aside - it's too hard. I want KFM to do the same as Windows Explorer -
when displaying the browse dialogue after clicking on a file type I
want to see a checkbox saying "always open this type with this application?".
I don't want to understand MIME. I don't want to understand how to get KFM
to recognise applications. I don't want to understand .kdelnk files.

I just want the Winblows way of doing it (quick and simple).

thanks,
c.

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