Your message dated Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:32:59 +0000 with message-id <19991217203258.C832@faure.localdomain> and subject line Bug#2427: KFM & MIME types has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Stephan Kulow (administrator, KDE bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.kde.org; 17 Dec 1999 20:03:08 +0000 From cam@sspl.demon.co.uk Fri Dec 17 21:03:08 1999 Received: from sspl.demon.co.uk ([194.222.124.114]:41220 "EHLO sspl.demon.co.uk") by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with ESMTP id ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:03:03 +0100 Received: (from cam@localhost) by sspl.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00526 for submit@bugs.kde.org; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:05:11 GMT Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:05:11 GMT From: Cameron Newham Message-Id: <199912172105.VAA00526@sspl.demon.co.uk> To: submit@bugs.kde.org Subject: KFM & MIME types Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;submit@bugs.kde.org 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.