Files of type .abw start weirdly in KDE

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/02/2012 09:06 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> When I click on the file foo.abw in the Desktop I would expect the abiword application to start with foo.abw open.  But actually firefox opens with two tabs and two dialog boxes, both of which state:
>
>     You have chosen to open
>
>         *foo.abw*
>         which is an AbiWord document (10.0 KB)
>         from /home/jonrysh/desktop
>
>     *What should Firefox do with this file?*
>
>         O Open with AbiWord (default)
>         O ...
>
> The preferences in System Settings->File Associations all look OK.  Clicking on any other file in the Desktop works OK.  What's going on?
> System is Fedora17 with KDE 4.8.4.

If you right click on the file on the Desktop and choose "Properties" and then go to the "Information" tab, what does it show?

FWIW, it works as expected on my system.

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