On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:09, James Ogley wrote:
On my machine, the MIME type for Excel is application/vnd.ms-excel
applications listed. If I try to associate an application, it either tells me to enter a MIME type or it disappears without changing anything. Any thoughts?
Like I said, the MIME type is application/vnd.ms-excel
I tried that. It didn't work. It looked like it worked, i.e. no error messages, but nothing changed. Perhaps I'm confused about what I am doing. (Nothing new there.) I click on the xls file icon. Nothing happens. I right-click on the icon and select "Open With". The submenu contains only "An Application..." and "A Viewer..." I select "An Application..." This brings up an info box telling me there is no application associated with this file but offers the option of associating an application with this file type. I click on "Associate Application" which brings up an "Edit file type" box. I select an icon and leave Description empty. There is a MIME type already there (zz-winassoc-xls) but I change it to "application/vnd.ms-excel". (I copied the MIME type from your e-mail.) The only other change I make is to put "gnumeric" in the "Program to run" box. I leave "Run in Terminal" unchecked. When I click on the OK box, Edit file type goes away but nothing else changes. The icon stays the same and there still is no application listed in the Open With submenu. The permissions on the file is 0777 and the owner is dhenson, my login name. Can you see anything I'm doing wrong? Do I need to do this as root? Can you think of anything that might occur during an APT update of Gnumeric that might cause this not to work? Any assistance will be appreciated. Don Henson