On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 22:31 +0100, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > Dear List, > > I have several kinds of files that Gnome detects as "plain text > documents": some with the extension .py, some with .txt, some with > .mht . . . you get the picture. The .py files I'd like to open with > gVim, the .txt files in SciTE, the .mht files with Opera, et cetera. > However, when I try to change the "Open WIth" of any of these file > types [1], it changes for all plain text files. The behaviour I desire > is that I can associate different programs to files with different > extension. > > Is it possible to persuade Gnome to treat files with the same MIME > type but different filename extensions separately? > If yes, how? It should, by default. The definitions for these are provided by the package shared-mime-info. Do you have that package installed? It sounds like GNOME wasn't installed quite correctly on your machine. What distribution are you using? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
