On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:24, Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21.07.2010 12:06, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Firefox used evince before I installed gimp, so it must be picking up
>> available applications from somewhere, right?
>>
>> It also seems to pick up much more than just the name of the executable, since
>> it displays the choice "GNU Image Manipulation Program (d..." in the dialogue.
> If you're talking about the dialogue I'm thinking of ("What should
> Firefox do with this file?"), you can choose "Other..." and browse for
> an executable of your choice.
Sure I can, but I'm curious of how firefox picked up evince to begin
with, and then picked gimp instead, and why is evince not available as
an option any more?
Is that really only configurable by browsing around for executable
files if I'm unhappy with the default choice?
/M
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