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Re: [LUG] File "extension" handling?

 

Right click on kdi file choose properties choose open with tab and add
kdissert and click on radio button to make default

On 10/04/2008, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently started using KDissert (a so-called "mindmapping" tool) under
> Gnome on Ubuntu 7.10.
>
> KDissert saves its files as ".kdi" files - which are actually gzipped tar
> files containing a single XML document.
>
> Gnome's file manager (Nautilus?) identifies this as an archive (which it
> is) and tries to open it in the "Archive Manager" - which is perfectly
> logical and reasonable... but I would like to have it open in KDissert by
> default.
>
> If I right-click on the file's icon, I can "Open With Other
> Application...", but that seems to be a one-time thing.
>
> Where would I have to go to add .kdi as a respected file extension within
> Gnome so it always opens in KDissert?
>
> Cheers.
> Grant.
>
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