Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 February 2006 20:07, Willie Wong wrote: The question is how you are recognizing the files? From what you are saying, it sounds to me like you are double-clicking in some KDE file browser and letting KDE do the job of deciding which application to call. Since I know naught about KDE, I

[gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document so you can run it under Windows without having

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Willie Wong
The 'file' command and mime types are different things. On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a Open with... option in the