Jos van Kan wrote:
Dennis E. Slice schreef:
But, that does not change the TB default app for such files - a new window now opens briefly before the file is opened and the "Action" preference page shows the separate, explicit, nondefault specification of one of the above, soffice, etc. That might be fine, except...
I see know way to add "XLS" or any other extensions as a supported file type. The only ones listed are: DOC JPG PDF and ASC. Buttons support: Remove Action, Change Action, but no Add/New Action. They must be coming from somewhere else.
Yes that's a design error in TB. (sort of) Send yourself an attached .xls file and open it in TB. You get a dialog box asking you what to do with it and there you can choose "open it with oocalc". You also can check a box "Always perform this action with this kind of file" and from that moment on Bob is your uncle. No doubt the philosophy of the TB designers is that you shouldn't worry about attached .xls files as long as you don't get them. They have a point there. :-)
Regards,
We have a winner, and Bob, it appears, is indeed my uncle! After right clicking on the .xls file and specifying they are to be opened with "/usr/bin/openoffice.org2.3" and this is to be done for all such files, XLS now appears in the "Action" list and things work as expected. I even deleted the DOC Action I had set in the panel and reset it this way for consistency, but that was really unnecessary. I suppose TB was built to assume an earlier version of OOo and its file names and locations. Thanks to all who contributed. Hopefully, this exchange will help others, as well. -dslice -- Dennis E. Slice Department of Anthropology University of Vienna ======================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org