On Monday 14 Nov 2005 21:22, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > >I have just started to use Freemind. This creates mindmap files with the > >extension .mm > > > >I would like kde to associate this extension with Freemind so I click on > > the file and start freemind with it as a parameter. > > > >WHen I do this, despite setting up the extension to be .mm, KDE changes > > ALL text files to do this - obviously not what I want. > > > >Is it possible to tell KDE that files ending in .mm are NOT text files? > > My usual method is this: > > 1. Open Konqueror > 2. Find file of type .mm (or whatever) > 3. Right-click on file and click "Properties" > 4. Click the "Edit File Type" button which is to the right of the > "Type:" line on the resulting screen > 5. Edit file name patterns and other options, and select program to open > 6. Click "OK" or "Apply" buttons back up to the surface
No - for reasons I couldn't fathom, that was also changing the text file type globally In the end I found a way by going to the control centre and adding a new file association type. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]