Re: Changing file associations

[local10 <local10@tutanota.com>]

> KOrganizer somehow muscled its way to being the default program for all text files. Is there 
> a way to make Kate the default program without having to  change every single file 
> association manually?
>

Do you have "systemsettings" package installed? Open the systemsetting app > Applications > File Associations and from then you can assign apps to handle several file extensions at once.


> For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program 
> for all supported file types. Does something similar exist for KDE?

You could try adding "*.*" as a pattern (without quotes) to one of the known file types and see how well it works. Personally I'm not sure there's a lot of sense opening, say, mp3 files with kwrite. :)

Regards,