[K12OSN] File Associations for All Users

[Mark Cockrell]

>
> Mark Cockrell wrote:
>
>> Can someone tell me how to set Konqueror's file associations (i.e. MS 
>> Word documents opened with StarOffice, etc.) for all users in one shot?
>>
> Mark:
>
> Did you ever get the answer to this? Yesterday I had a high school 
> student trying to print a flyer that was a pdf -- GVC or some Gnome 
> program opened the pdf and didn't allow us to request multiple copies, 
> or change whether or not it printed in color or black and white. I 
> wanted to try acroread, but ran into problems trying to save the 
> web-based pdf and open it again. It was very frustrating for the 
> student and me. By the end, all he wanted was a windows machine. :^(  
> I looked at the file /etc/mime-types,  but that didn't seem to be what 
> I thought. I didn't see that you received a response to this..... I'd 
> like to set acroread as the default application for all pdf's, local 
> or web-based. Everyone it seems is using pdf's for text documents now 
> on the web.
>
> Rita Gibson
> RMSEL

No, I didn't receive an answer on this list, nor have I been able to 
find an answer anywhere else.  I know how to do it for each user 
individually, but not for all of them at once.
-- 
C-ya,
Mark
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