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Re: Missing "File Types and Programs" capplet from capplets package in Sarge?

John W. M. Stevens wrote:


On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 08:19:41PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:

Ralph Katz wrote:


On 02/02/2006 03:11 PM, John W. M. Stevens wrote:



In the help for gnome, under:

10.2 Where to Find Preference Tools

It says that to find the File types and programs preference
tool, look under:
Applications ??? Desktop Preferences ??? Advanced ??? File types and programs 

But on Sarge, with the capplets package installed (which says
that it contains the file types and programs capplet), no such
capplet shows up.

I checked the package list, and it does NOT appear to actually
contain this capplet.  Anybody have any hints, suggestions or
instructions on how to fix this problem?

Thanks,
John S.

John,

You're not alone.  While setting up a sarge gnome desktop for my wife, I
was also unable to find that.  Adding a file association is trivial.
But /removing/ one is a mystery.

I just wanted to associate .html files with firefox, and not epiphany,
but gnome won't let you do that, nor will it let you change the default
file association, as far as I've been able to tell.

Searching the net, it appears that the gnome docs are obsolete, and
tools for doing what should be simple tasks are missing in gnome 2.8.

Perhaps someone can enlighten us...

Regards,
Ralph
I think you want the update-alternatives tool. You can find the Gnome frontend in the Applications menu: 

Applications -> System Tools -> Alternatives Configurator


No such menu option exists on my system.  Is this intalled from an
optional package?
Install the package galternatives. The command run from the Gnome menu is also called galternatives. 

Chris.
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