On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 09:59, Jean Neron wrote: > I've tried that before, but no luck. The file types selection just > comes up blank (ie, a completely empty pane) and I get the following > error in the console window when I click on 'File Types & Programs' > under 'Document Handlers'. > > /bin/sh: line 1: file-types-capplet: command not found > > Jean > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 10:55, Paul Hands wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's a gnome control center setting. Try running gnomecc, which is > > /opt/gnome/bin on SuSE 8.1. > > > > Paul > > > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:40, Jean Neron wrote: > > > I think I've had this problem since I switched to SuSE 8.1. The > > > problem is that evolution doesn't seem to know anything about file > > > associations. No matter what the attachment is, evo only gives me > > > the choice to save it. Previously I used to have choices to open > > > with various programs, depending on the file type. I know this is > > > maintained in Gnome somewhere, but I believe it is set up > > > correctly, because when I run Nautilus, it knows what programs are > > > used for which files It's only evo that doesn't seem to know. > > > > > > Where does it look for this information? I'm running under KDE. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Jean from an earlier thread on this subject, it is a SuSE 8.1 problem easily fixed as per the instructions from Itzchak Rehberg as follows: ------------------ It's FOR SURE a problem of SuSE 8.1: when creating the package for the control-center, they forgot to include the binary for this *grmpf!* So the solution was quite easy: * d/l control-center*.rpm for SuSE 8.0 * copy the file into the /opt/gnome/bin * et voila! Edit the associations... ----------------- after this you can, from Konsole, go to gnmomecc and make the file associations whatever you want.
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