On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 14:34, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > If you were on this list from a long time, then you probably know that > even I'd started a thread about a similar issue. It was about file > associations with firefox & thunderbird. Ultimate solution is to use > their inbuilt settings- that was what suggested to me. How amazingly irritating! /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus ; identi.ca|twitter: magthe