okay, this is what i have discovered, in user file manager altering the properties of an application desktop config file in /.kde/share/applnk/...../app.desktop does indeed do the same as going into settings>configure>file associations, however to have an application associated with all files one has to go the latter route in order to set the file name pattern associated with all/allfiles, unfortunately if left blank it has no effect, if assigned to * then all files will have this association as well as their existing ones but they will all have the same icon as as that defined for all/allfiles which really doesn't look nice, which means i can't do what i want, which is to have an editor associated for all unknown files so that if i don't know what a file is i can load it into an editor to see if that gives me a clue, without having to go open with>browse, windows has 'send to' off the right click menu i thought i could get kde to have the same functionality but i can't see how, dragging to an icon on the desktop requires visible desktop and dragging to the task bar can be hit and miss with those small icons i like to have in order to maximise deskspace. anyone not asleep after reading this who has an idea how i may do what i want please chip in, bascule On Monday 27 November 2000 2:05 am, I wrote: > > i am trying to configure kde so that a right click on any file will give > the option of opening in an editor, > i don't know wether to do this by editing the properties of the .desktop > file for that editor so that under file types appears all/all files or to > go to configure>file associations and set all/all to have the association > editor with file pattern blank, are these two routes showing the same > configuration info, have i made sense? is there a better way? is there life > on mars... > > bascule > > bleep bleep...out of cheese error...bleep bleep...please reboot universe... ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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