[SLE] system-wide default file handler? (e.g. use mplayer to open .avi format by default)
- From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:35:57 +0800
Hello. It is very difficult to support new users (especially Windows
users). Perhaps all people on this list who supports users switched to
SuSE from Windows should open a separate list to share experience. Here
is another difficulty:
There is only one way to stop user complaining 'the Most Important
Application: "Windows Media Player" is missing', that is to
automatically associate .wmv and .avi (coded using wmv codec) to be by
default opened by mplayer. I can do this for one single user, but how do
I do this for a LOT of users? Can I set system-wide configuration to
let .avi .wmv file open by mplayer? (In my case, users use gnome).
I cannot eliminate wmv files. They are everywhere around the earth.
Anyone who release some media file must consider that only some people
knows how to (and wish to) install quick time, so .mov is 'out'. Same
for Xvid, rmvb... result: every time every website release .wmv files. A
lot of user actually consider wmv to be the best format in this universe
because it's used so widely, it must be the best.
It's not useful to tell user to launch mplayer for wmv files. First,
they will try to drap and drop media files to mplayer, which do not work
because mplayer don't support drag&drop. Second, they will try to use
'open file' dialogue, if they are lucky enough not to be threaden by
English (mplayer user interface is in English), they will find
themselves opening a dialog box full of jargon (they can use Linux for
months without understanding '/home' '/usr' jargon) and don't know how
to open the wmv file because they don't know where it is. Then, they
will probably find the wmv file, but cannot read it because Chinese
ideographs in filename are displayed junk text in mplayer. Then, if they
still don't walk away from Linux computers to Windows computers, they
will file a complaint. The only way to support these users is to set
system-wide configuration so that when they double-click wmv, mplayer
launches and plays.
I googled around and found a lot of answers on how to change
file-right-click-context menu, but none of them are for administrators,
most articles only talk about how to change it for the current user.
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