Re: File Types and Associations ???

From: Mike McCarty (mike.mccarty_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 06/30/05

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Scott Talbot wrote:

    [snip]

    [I wrote]

    >> When I go to the properties dialog box I get these options:
    >>
    >> GNOME PDF VIEWER
    >> OTHER APPLICATION
    >>
    >> I see no "add button".
    >>
    >> If I select GNOME PDF VIEWER, it comes up and does its thing.
    >> If I select OTHER APPLICATION, I get the dialog I mentioned above.
    >> There is no "add" button on that dialog box. That box has these buttons
    >>
    >> for "ggv" there is a "Modify" button (I can select which of 3 to
    >> modify)
    >> for "File types and programs" there is a "Go there" button which
    >> acts as
    >> described above
    >> at the bottom are "Help", "Cancel", and "Ok"
    >>
    >> Thanks for the reply.
    >>
    >> Mike
    >>
    > Sorry, I think I assumed you were using FC3 or 4. The answer is in
    > the dialog you saw when you selected "go there" from the context
    > menu. It has been many months since I have used that. Same with the
    > File Types and programs! Don't worry that it doesn't display the full
    > path once acroread is selected though, Fedora knows where it is at.
    > If you want to be sure you could make a link somewhere, say in
    > /usr/bin, that would at least make it easier to find. To do that,
    > Open a terminal, cd to /usr/bin and issue the command
    > ln -s /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread .
    > make sure you include that final period - it points to the current
    > directory.
    >
    > Any way try that out, and I'll see if I can massage my memory cells
    > a bit more...
    >
    > Scott
    >
    Yes, I did what you suggest, and it does *not* open PDF files with
    acrobat. It also does not have an option to open PDF files with
    acrobat. I know how links work. Thanks for the suggestion, I had
    thought of it.

    If I double click on a PDF file, it automatically opens it with the
    GNOME PDF viewer. If I right click, I get

        Open
        Open With
        Cut File
        Copy File
        Make Link
        Rename
        Move to trash
        Create Archive
        Properties

    Open opens like a double click.
    Open With leads to the menu we discussed, which does NOT
    have an acroread option. It does what I discussed above. When
    it is selected it offers two options:
        GNOME PDF VIEWER
        Other Application
    The others I guess we all know what they do.

    Open With->Other Application behaves as I described above.

    Thanks for you time.

    Mike 

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