From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 14:04:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5602A1065673 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE72F8FC14 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so10443942wwi.1 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:04:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mxaB9a4mq0vMSpubElHEjEBOMBTcyL34DOS80dD2zy8=; b=MI+64+1/e/kGc5OXkTBbyM7IPiINJlBek4IF1dfJ/e6GDtINrO+vFt1An62AWKGk6O 38XFPmdk6tAUJShZI0nPmGDVUe3sDNoO8zALgyUUuDkaTp2y72Nt3ru2QIaP97FEBBdW KXf6qyCFWmN2jlSDGim/S+CGtK9aObu9SasX4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t54IIEqPmzMQo/LzTD1OxB43qx49XIu+Fow8ypiUJLL4LnT2T3uVwDT8k+pJIIttuM gr2soxt3mCbyQPF17Q2ZkX2NxpM45ibhqKXjZQwc/AKiU9JkHCtRuXvVlYPYMc4EkRBd BzMy+5WAqFU4LdoYIsj26CXLRHzajHGsDys2E= Received: by 10.227.172.137 with SMTP id l9mr8894342wbz.196.1293631476757; Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from Abricot.malikania.fr (65.21.102-84.rev.gaoland.net [84.102.21.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q18sm10139986wbe.23.2010.12.29.06.04.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:04:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D1B3FFA.9070302@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:04:42 +0100 From: David Demelier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101220 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre References: <4D1B1217.7020909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change firefox/thunderbird open dialog application X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:04:38 -0000 On 29/12/2010 13:04, Alexandre wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM, David Demelier > > wrote: > > Hello, > > When you download a file with firefox or thunderbird you'll get this > window : http://ompldr.org/vNnJxag > > But I would like to switch the application to use for a certain > mimetype like Text file should use leafpad, http link firefox and so on. > > I do not really like to browse to the pointed binary since you > cannot be sure it will works if you put your configuration on a > system where binaries are not in the same place and you cannot add > additional flags neither. > > I never found anywhere where you can edit these settings, > > Kind regards, > > -- > David Demelier > > In the Firefox preferences, there is an 'Application' menu where you can > associate the application with mimetype. But it's the same thing, it opens a dialog window to search a full binary path. On ubuntu and other desktop aim distributions, these action are associated to .desktop files I think. They may have been set globally within GNOME or KDE maybe. -- David Demelier