-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bjørge Solli wrote: > Robert Moonen wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Afief Halumi wrote: >>> I'd like to add that the same horrible problem happens when opening >>> PHP files that happen to not be PHP files. >>> I wonder why so much empathis is put on the file extension when Unix >>> systems usually don't give a damn about them anyway $ file filename >>> and you know if it's ASCII or an MP3 or whatever. >> Because KDE and now Gnome are trying to behave like Windoze, because the >> way to make a desktop popular seems to be to appease the lowest common >> denominator. >> >>> This warning is just as annoying for me as vista's "cancel or allow", >>> it should be the responsibility of the program(text editor? audio >>> player?) not to cause a security risk when trying to open a weird >>> file. >> Change your gnome preferences. > > That is exactly my question; How? > > As I stated in the initial email, my attempts to alter the prefs have > failed. Find object in "my computer", right click on it, select preferences, then open the "opens with" tab. If adding an application to open that object with doesn't become visible in the list of applications allowed to open that object. Then it needs to be fixed and should be reported as a bug. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG/RG0R3H8POzUb78RAosjAJwMB6cey7VS5mj6b98CVLRzrM8SUgCggV8B HtcTS7bsHM8ly7R1rw8OARI= =E+Rm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
