choosing default applications

Philippe Landau lists at mailry.net
Sun Oct 31 09:17:51 UTC 2004


Jeff Waugh wrote:
>>- how can i find mozilla composer when i choose "open with ..." ?
> You'll have to type in the binary name and parameters - it's "mozilla
> -edit".
thank you.

>>- is the file type determined exclusively by the file name extension ?
> No, it is also sniffed from the content.
great.

>>- when i click on a http link sometimes gnome
>>   opens the page in firefox, sometimes in mozilla browser,
>>   can i change this ?
>>   (i also need to change preferred email reader to thunderbird).
> Computer > Desktop Preferences > Preferred Applications
will there be an applications list on "open with" in woary ?
and are there plans to expand the preferred app contol panel ?

kind regards     philippe




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