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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#2427: marked as done (KFM & MIME types)
From:       owner () bugs ! kde ! org (Stephan Kulow)
Date:       1999-12-17 20:48:00
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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.

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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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