Re: Changing file associations in KDE
On Monday 14 Nov 2005 21:22, Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
> Alan Chandler wrote:
> >I have just started to use Freemind. This creates mindmap files with the
> >extension .mm
> >
> >I would like kde to associate this extension with Freemind so I click on
> > the file and start freemind with it as a parameter.
> >
> >WHen I do this, despite setting up the extension to be .mm, KDE changes
> > ALL text files to do this - obviously not what I want.
> >
> >Is it possible to tell KDE that files ending in .mm are NOT text files?
>
> My usual method is this:
>
> 1. Open Konqueror
> 2. Find file of type .mm (or whatever)
> 3. Right-click on file and click "Properties"
> 4. Click the "Edit File Type" button which is to the right of the
> "Type:" line on the resulting screen
> 5. Edit file name patterns and other options, and select program to open
> 6. Click "OK" or "Apply" buttons back up to the surface
No - for reasons I couldn't fathom, that was also changing the text file type
globally
In the end I found a way by going to the control centre and adding a new file
association type.
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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