Re: Re: MIME types, again ("Nautilus" ain't the answer)

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:03 -0800, Silvio Levy wrote:
>I wouldn't mind going out of Galeon (into Nautilus, say)
>to set file associations, IF it were easy or even possible to do so.
>
>But on one of my Gnome desktops (Debian, at work) I simply haven't been
>able to change default file associations.  Neither of the two ways
>supposedly avaiable (according to <Nautilus 2.8.2> Help | Assigning Actions)
>works:
>
>(1) "File Types and Programs" preference tool -- can't find any such thing.
>Some web pages say it's under
><Desktop> Applications | Desktop Preferences | Advanced
>but not on my system.  Can't find it in Nautilus either.
>
>(2) <Nautilus> File | Open With | Other Application and then Modify.
>The last button (Modify) does not exist.  I can add applications, but
>not set a new defualt.

Clearly the nautilus docs are a bit out of date.

The correct way to do it as of Gnome 2.8 is to right click on a file,
e.g. a pdf file, select Properties, then "Open With", and then select
the program there, or add a new one.

Crispin



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