[SATLUG] predefined helper application

[Borries Demeler]

BINGO!! John, nautilus did the trick, didn't need to fool with 
kcontrol or mozilla - Linoyance is gone :-)

Thanks for the great help!
-Borries
> 
> This would be filed as a Linoyance:
> 
> GNOME's App associations: use nautilus: Right click on a file with the
> appropo extension, choose Properties.  Under the Open With tab, you can
> control both the default App as well as ancillary Apps.
> 
> KDE: KDE Control Center | KDE Components | File Associations.
> 
> Once both of those are checked, see what Firefox thinks for
> associations.  If still incorrect, then Edit/Preferences | Downloads
> context | View & Edit Actions.  Find the Extension you want to edit,
> then change the action.  If the file type does not exist in the first
> place, then find a link to a file of the appropo type, and prompt to
> determine action should pop up.  Pick the always do this checkbox and
> then go through the above to edit it.
> 
> Let me know if this helps!
> 
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 07:50 -0600, Borries Demeler wrote:
> > I have a question about Mozilla:
> > 
> > Whenever I download an attachment of type application/octet-stream that is
> > a PDF file, Mozilla wants to use this atrocious GNOME PDF viewer to display 
> > it. When I go into helper applications the entry for this MIME type doesn't
> > list GNOME PDF viewer at all and any attempts to override it with acroread
> > are useless. So my question:
> > 
> > WHERE can I redefine this selection?
> > 
> > Thanks, -borries
> 
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