On 5/18/2011 10:41 PM, Mihira Fernando wrote:
On 05/19/2011 01:53 AM, John Andersen wrote:
Well, as I mentioned upthread, I did indeed switch to double click to launch.
But your method for kde3 probably won't work (don't have any more KDE3 machines to try it on) because as far as I can remember, the system uses "magic numbers" to determine file type EVEN when you try to tell it what extensions go with what programs.
Its part of the "smarts" where linux knows the file type even if the user changes the extension.
man 5 magic I'm not suggesting that you change the extension, I'm suggesting that you change the application used to launch it. Change it from kwrite to nothing at all. As I said, on KDE 3.5, the method I mentions works. No harm in trying it with dolphin is there ?
Well you see, the file is detected as text. (Its extension doesn't matter). Linux does not use extensions in determining what a file is. It determines that by inspection using the "file" command. If I change what program is used to open text files in KDE, or remove the assignment for text files, it will apply to ALL text files, not just these problem children. I'm not willing to forgo the system automatically knowing what to use when I double click a text file. Will posted above that he already did that test. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org