Opening OOo-3 files from Dolphin or Konqueror

Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 21:26:03 UTC 2009


2009/4/6 Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:
> FC 10-X86_64 / KDE
>
> This box is a Fresh install of FC10 from FC8 ,  / was formatted and clean
> install, the /home/user was saved from FC8 .
>
> For instance, opening a *.xls , *.odt any OO file, from Dolphin or
> Konqueror,  if you LEFT click on a Icon to open a xls, it will say it can't
> open it,
> but if I RIGHT click and tell it to open with "OpenOffice Calc" it will open
> it.
>
> In the window, when you RIGHT click it says;
>
> ? Open with Spreadsheet
> Open with Openoffice Calc
> Other
>
> If you click on "Open with Spreadsheet" that when it says it can't open
> file,   There is  a ? in front of  'Open with Spreadsheet' , which it means
> it's a DEAD application launcher.
>
> But if I select 'Open with Openoffice Calc' it then opens the .xls file.
>
> That  ? Open with Spreadsheet  is a DEAD launcher and also the DEFAULT
> launcher when LEFT clicking on Icon to start opening a OpenOffice-3 file.
>
> How Do I Get Rid of   ?  Open with Spreadsheet in the LEFT click window .
>
> I have deleted the ~/user/.kde and let it regenerate a new .kde folder, but
> that doesn't help with my problem.
>
> I also deleted the  .openoffice folder and let it regenerate a new
> .openoffice folder.

What does "SystemSettings > Advanced tab > File Associations" say
about those type of files?

-- 
Sam




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