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Date:      Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:37:58 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        James Earl <james@icionline.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why only abiword in preferred applications?
Message-ID:  <1102563478.19370.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1102562079.4151.9.camel@serious.ab.hsia.telus.net>
References:  <1102559213.64667.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> <opsipythyg9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <1102562079.4151.9.camel@serious.ab.hsia.telus.net>

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On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 20:14 -0700, James Earl wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 20:35 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:26:53 -0800, Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> wrote=
:
> >=20
> > You can change that by go to nautilus -> right click on text editor fil=
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> > -> propteries -> Open With and select what you want the default to be. =
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> > dislike what AbiWord team has decided to add text/plain in their mimety=
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> > too. I can remove it from the *.desktop if I get the high vote.
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> I'm all for that.
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> Is there a way to allow AbiWord to associate itself with text/plain, but
> not replace gedit as the default?

Just do what Mezz said, and get properties on a text file, and add
AbiWord to the Open With... list.  You can leave gedit as the default,
but now AbiWord will show up in the right-click menu.

Joe

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