-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bjørge Solli wrote: > Robert Moonen wrote: >> Bjørge Solli wrote: >>> Robert Moonen wrote: >>>> 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. > > That is just the thing. It does get available in the list of > applications allowed to open that object, and I mark the Text Editor the > default (by selecting it in the list). If I right click on it and select > "open with", then all available options except the one I chose as > default appears, and choosing e.g. NEdit makes NEdit open the file. But > if I double click the file it will not open and the warning appears as > before. > > Can anyone confirm that this is a bug? Just tested the default switching on a .jpg file and it all seems to work just fine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG/ScOR3H8POzUb78RAvm7AJ4/cPUNd7V+YXoVzC0PFH1e0qt5WACdE2fH RIc5ce0ZmH5h37FHMx48RRg= =iSTX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
