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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2427: KFM & MIME types
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-12-17 20:38:32
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On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 03:18:20PM -0500, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> 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 :)
> 

You mean "successor", not "predecessor" :-)

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