Files of type .abw start weirdly in KDE

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/02/2012 01:25 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net <mailto:jonrysh at pacbell.net>> 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.
>
>     Thanks - jon
>
>
> Hi Jon:
>
> Either type $abiword foo.abw at the command line or open abiword and chose file/open; the manner in which you are doing it above will not work. This is not MS Windows.
>

Where did you get that impression?   Indeed, if you double click on the file placed on a KDE desktop it will open the application.  See my other message in this thread.


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