New subject, clicking .png's gets wine/Outlook

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 September 2012 16:23:06 Colin Law did opine:

> On 3 September 2012 17:56, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 September 2012 12:45:54 H. Gأ¶khan Sarؤ± did opine:
> >> Hi Gene,
> >> 
> >> Looks like wine messed your default browser. I am not currently using
> >> KDE, but someone in OpenSuse forums* says you can change default
> >> browser following:
> >> 
> >> Kmenu > Configure Desktop > Advanced > File Assoc > Text > HTML.
> > 
> > I don't have a kmenu, there is only enough kde to get kmail running. 
> > The window manager is still gdm.
> > 
> >> From there just adjust the Application Preference Order
> >> 
> >> Another suggestion in same thread* is:
> >> 
> >> Try going to Desktop Settings/Personalised Settings -> Default
> >> Applications
> > 
> > Again, there seems not to be a desktop settings in any pulldown.
> > 
> >> > -> Web Browser -> Change to 'in the following broswer' -> browse
> >> > for firefox
> >> 
> >> If these don't work, you can also try saving a HTML in a folder,
> >> right clicking it to get in file's properties, and changing default
> >> application that will handle that kind of file.
> >> 
> >> [0]:
> >> http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/404821-how-do-you-change-defa
> >> ult -web-browser-kde4.html
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> >> > Greetings folks;
> >> > 
> >> > For 2 or 3 weeks now, whenever I click on a link, or attachment in
> >> > kmail that ends in a .png, instead of calling firefox to display
> >> > it, its calling wine/OutlookExploder, which if course has no clue
> >> > how to handle the mimetype so I don't get to see it at all.
> >> > 
> >> > Is there another piece of kde I need to install in order to get a
> >> > mimetype editor?, I do not presently seem to have one.
> > 
> > I have since installed a few of the usual suspects, but it appears I
> > may have to install the full kde to get that stuff.  I would rather
> > not, and it seems to me that gnome should have the equivalent
> > function, but it isn't in the prefs or admin sections of the
> > pulldowns.
> 
> Have you got System Settings?

No.

> If so then have a look in System
> Settings > Details > Default Applications.
> 
> You could boot into Unity and check the settings there, but whether
> kmail will use the same settings or not is another matter.

No unity, it is a 10.04.4 LTS install.

> Colin

If I could find the controlling file, I could probably fix it with vim or 
gedit.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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