File type problem

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Tappin wrote:
> 
> I've probably missed something obvious, but I've been having problems
> persuading KDE to recognize OpenOffice files as such.
> 
> I've set up an OpenOffice menu item.
> I've added an application/x-openoffice to the filetypes (defined with pattern
> *.sx?) and set its default application to OpenOffice.
> 
> The OO desktop file does indeed claim that it will open
> application/x-openoffice.
> 
> Despite this, KDE insists that my OpenOffice files are Zip archives and
> therefore wants to open them with ark (the Zip filetype has the expected
> patterns of *.zip and *.ZIP).
> 
> FWIW StarOffice files are recognized and OpenOffice is offered as alternative
> application.
> 
> This occurs both with KDE 2.2 (from distribution) with RH7.2 and with KDE3.0
> (from source tarballs) on SuSE 7.2
> 
If you installed the release 1.0 then it should have installed a long
list of MIME types "application/vnd.stardivision.*" and
"application/sun.xml.*".  Do you see these in "File Associations"?

They should already be set up correctly.

--
JRT
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