File associations in nautilus
Tim
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Tue Oct 2 15:26:52 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:48 +0200, Karl-Olov Serrander wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have problems with my file associations in nautilus on a machine
> with FC6, fully updated.
>
> When I click on a file.odt created with openoffice-2.0.4 I get:
> Cannot open file.odt. The filename indicates this is "ODT Document",
> but the contents indicates "java Archive"
>
> I need to rightclick and use "Open with"
>
> What can cause this ? I have other FC6 machines also fully updated,
> without the problem.
A poor filetype matcing mechanism is the cause of the fault. Both Java
JAR files and OpenOffice.org files are files packed in a ZIP archive.
The filetyping scheme is too dumb to tell them apart, and claims that
they're whatever it thinks a ZIP file is.
You can try flip flopping the default over to it thinking all such files
are OpenOffice.org files, by right-clicking, opening the properties, and
changing the open-with program. But then you'll have the reverse
problem, but if you never double-click JAR files, or ZIP files, that
won't matter to you.
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