[K12OSN] File Associations for All Users

[Rita Gibson]

Jeff Kinz wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:12:26AM -0500, Mark Cockrell wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>>Mark:
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>>>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
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>>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.
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>I believe this setting is konq specific.  
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>Mark - do you know what file gets modified for an individual user ?
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>If so, the "locate" command can tell you where files with similar names
>exist on the system.  One of them may hold the "global default"
>settings.
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Calvin Dodge emailed me and said to take a look at /etc/mailcap  and 
there is a reference. I will try to change that file and see what 
happens when I am next at the school.

Rita Gibson