Re: Where to set application details

On Wednesday 20 January 2010, bill purvis wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 January 2010, bill purvis wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > The information might still be cached. Run kbuildsycoca4 to rebuild
> > the system configuration cache.
> >
> > If that doesn't help then I'm out of ideas.
>
> kbuildsycoca4 isn't on my system. I'm running under Gnome (but prefer
> kmail over evolution!)

Hmm. That's weird. kbuildsycoca4 is an integral part of the KDE 
infrastructure used by all KDE application.


> Where would this cache be?

In KDE 3 it was at ~/.kde/share/config/ksycoca. In KDE 4 it's probably 
in the same spot.


Regards,
Ingo

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