Re: Opening files from file-roller

[Greg Oliver <goliver cistera com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:50 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> out of curiosity, is nautilus displaying the same behaviour with right
> click->open with option ?
> 
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 23:02 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
> > Hi.  I'm presently running GNOME 2.8 on CentOS 4.3 (RHEL 4) (with great 
> > success, I might add :-) ).  I recently "reset" my user account by 
> > moving all the "dot" (or "hidden") files (.[^.]*) in my home directory 
> > into a backup directory and login in as a "new" user to allow all the 
> > applications to "regenerate" their dot-files.  (I did this because my 
> > account is extremely old and I thought it was about time I cleaned 
> > things up a little).
> > 
> > Before my reset whenever I ran "file-roller" I was able to right-click 
> > on any file, select "View" or "Open" from the menu and a list of 
> > "compatible" applications (which could open the file selected) would be 
> > shown for me to decide which one to use to "launch" the file (for 
> > "viewing" or "opening").  Now, after the reset, the application list in 
> > "file-roller" is empty.  Is there any way for me sort of "configure" 
> > file-roller to "know" which apps to use for which files?  Sorry if the 
> > question is obvious.  TIA.

Just out of curiousity, but OT - I am on gnome 2.14, but applies to all
recent versions I have run.

Where do I go (or what xml file) do I edit to set the applications that
show up after a right click..   It is definitely not in the "preferred
applications" section that only has email/web, and I cannot find it
anywhere.  And I assume that is the same place for example:

to tell a double click to start mplayer vs. totem for .mpg, etc...

Thanks,

Greg