preferred applications in gnome/nautilus

[Joep L. Blom]

NoOp wrote:
> On 03/27/2009 08:14 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> I have a small annoying problem because I can't find (or have forgotten) 
>> where the applications, visible in nautilus, can be changed
>> (when right-clicking on a filename a menu pops up with a list of 
>> applications).
>> I've looked on all items under System-> Preferences and System-> 
>> Administration but nothing is there and the help information is not very 
>> helpful.
>> I want e.g. to start OO-files to read with OO 3.01 but nautilus finds 
>> only OO 2.4, and it will stubornly try to start khexedit but I want to 
>> use Ghex (I use Gnome from the start).
>> It must be something simple but I can't find it and hope somebody has
>> more knowledge and can help me out.
>> My system: AMD64 OS: Hardy.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Joep
>>
> 
> Right click the file, select Properties|Open With - or right click and
> select Open With|Open with other application. You most likely will not
> find your 3.0.1 in the dropdown list of programs (yet), so you will need
> to add it. Use 'Use a custom command' and then 'Browse'. Browse to your
> 3.0.1 swriter, scalc, etc. (File System|Opt|openoffice.org3|program) and
> use that to start the document. Thereafter you should then see swriter,
> scalc, etc., in the dropdown program list.
> 
> The files that are associated with the list are located in:
> ~/.local/share/applications
> default.list and mimeapps.list
> OOo files are 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument'
> 
> You can modify the associated .desktop file if you wish. For example
> here is a basic swriter 'userapp-swriter-<someidentifier>.desktop' file:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Exec='/opt/openoffice.org3/program/swriter' %f
> Name=swriter
> Comment=Custom definition for swriter
> NoDisplay=true
> 
> It can be modified to show an icon in the dropdown list & a better
> definition:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Version=1.0
> Icon=ooo-writer
> Type=Application
> Categories=Application;Office;WordProcessor;
> Exec='/opt/openoffice.org3/program/swriter' %f
> Name=OpenOffice.org3 Word Processor
> Comment=Custom definition for OOo3 swriter
> NoDisplay=true
> MimeType=application/msword;application/rtf;application/vnd.ms-works;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-master;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template;application/vnd.stardivision.writer;application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.global;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template;application/vnd.wordperfect;application/wordperfect;application/x-extension-txt;application/x-t602;text/plain;text/rtf;application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template;
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Noop,
Thanks a lot! That was exactly the information I was looking for. I 
think I can solve it however, it will take a lot of editing as there are 
several entries in that directory that I want to change. However, I know 
now how to solve this and will use it.
You are invaluable for finding and giving solutions to problems for 
everybody on this list.
Joep