[KLUG Members] Ximian Defaults?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>but, say i download a RPM file to my home directory.  Well, i click
>>>on my home directory icon, and click on the file i just downloaded, it
>>>says something along the lines that no applicaion can open it.  same goes
>>>for zip, tar, ect..  All of those will work in KDE when i click on that,
>>>or
>>Hmmm.  What are you double clicking it in?
>I am clicking on the files in Nautilus File Manager

Ok, that should be the same as gmc (AFAIK).

>>You setup associations in
>>the Control Panel/Document Handlers.  What does it look like in there?
>Well, in that screen everything looks okay.  When i go into File Types
>and Programs, all the file extentions are listed and some of them have
>programs to open them.  But most like, .rar, .tgz, .tar, .zip, .rpm have 
>"none" in the Default Action.  Now i know, the command "rpm" opens .rpm's, 
>and gzip opens zip files, but if i do that, will it work like it does in 
>kde?  Or will it open up a terminal window?  I would really prefer if it 
>would work like it did in KDE if at all possible.

I have no idea how KDE installs,  so I'm flying blind here.

First, RPMs is a bad example.  You can't install one without being root, and the
gnome-vfs should take over the browsing of tar.gz, rpm, etc... files and let you
move around inside them as if they were just subdirectories,  copy files out
etc....  (It doesn't appear that you can copy a file in, at least to an RPM
package).  If I right click on an RPM in gmc I get the options to Upgrade,
Install, Show Info, Check Signature, etc...  most of which lead to a "You must
be superuser" dialog box.

As for other file types (rtf, mpeg, etc...) GNOME seems to determine for itself
if it should open a terminal window or not.  You don't set that up in the MIME
bindings.

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