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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#2427: KFM & MIME types
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-12-17 20:18:20
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Cameron Newham wrote:
> 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,

Good point, but it has already been addressed in kfm's predecessor, konqueror :)

Regards,
Dawit A.

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