Re: Where to set application details

On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Werner Joss wrote:
> > Am Tuesday 19 January 2010 17:56:07 schrieb bill purvis:
> > > I've recently tried to open some Word documents which arrived as
> > > attachments to an email. When I click on them kmail pops up a
> > > dialog window suggesting I might like to open this with OpeOffice
> > > 1.1.4! I'm currently running OpenOffice 3.1, so when I click on
> > > this button nothing happens. I can't find anywhere in
> > > Settings->configure Kmail where this sort of thing is set up, and
> > > I've not found any references in the ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
> > > directory. Can anyone tell me how to change these links?
> >
> > System Settings > Advanced > File associations
> 
> AFAIK personal adjustments made to the file associations are stored in
> ~/.kde/share/applnk (or maybe nowadays they are stored somewhere in the
> desktop neutral ~/.local/share/applications). I guess there's an
> obsolete desktop file which references OpenOffice 1.1.4. Simply delete
> it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> 
Many thanks for the suggestion!

Hmmm, I've now scanned through all my hidden files (.??*) using find
and scanning for OpenOffice1.1.4 and removed all instance that were
revealed. Also scanned /etc and /usr/share in the same manner and can
find no references to it, but still it comes up with the same message.

Any further ideas?

Bill
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