SOLVED Re: How do I make native OpenOffice.org file associations (sxw, sxc...) in FC3

[Whil Hentzen]

Ya know how you get when you want an answer and you can't wait?  So you 
start fiddling around with it and end up breaking it even worse? Well, 
this time I got lucky. I went back to google and I must have tried the 
magic keywords cuz I found the answer.

Turns out this is a known bug
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=139485
And the bottom of this bug report has the answer - if you've got another 
Linux install where there are working file associations, you can copy a 
set of files to your FC3 box and life will be peachy.

The files (on the good box) in question are:

/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.*

And you copy them to the same place (as root) on the FC3 box.

Whil

> Hi folks,
>
> On my machine (at least), FC3 is missing file associations for the 
> native OpenOffice.org file formats. Gadzooks!
>
> 1. For example, when I list a directory that contains OOo Writer 
> documents (sxw extensions) in Konqueror, I see "Unknown" in the "File 
> Type" column.
>
> 2. When I right-click on one of those SXW files, the context menu has 
> an option for Open with..." However when I right-click on a DOC file, 
> the context menu has an option that says "Open with" which then offers 
> choices for OO Writer and KWord. I was expecting the same thing for 
> SXW (and SXC...) files.
>
> 3. I'm guessing that there just isn't a file association set up for 
> SXW files in FC3. The Open With dialog doesn't have a "Use this 
> program to open this file type from now on" option when I right-click 
> on SXW files. I looked high and low and couldn't find the widget that 
> allows me to create one. And I couldn't find one.
>
> I've done a search on the fedora list on "file association" for the 
> last six months or so and didn't find any messages on this topic. So....
>
> How do I create a file association for SXWs (or any other type of 
> file, for that matter) in FC3?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Whil
>