Dave Sherman writes: > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 20:54, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > > > > Anyone using this beast? > > > > I'm desperate to set up a non-computer person with a desktop on a > > Mandrake 8.1 system. KDE is ALMOST right --- the desktop's great, but > > <rant>konqueror is totally bagbiting as a file manager (for heaven's > > sake, to make a new "folder," you gotta go under the Edit menu (which > > NO ONE uses for that), then open the create new choice, THEN choose > > directory (which only people like me know is what a folder really > > is). </rant> > > I normally use Gnome, but IIRC, you can right-click pretty much anywhere > in the Konqueror window (the right side you're if in split-pane view) > and create a new folder/directory that way. Sadly, I'm trying to set things up for someone who's pretty much a proof of the Apple argument for one-button mice. > > > So... I thought of nautilus. But nautilus thinks star writer > > documents are zip archives and no matter what I do, I can't change > > it's mind. <rant>I changed the &obscenity "file associations" in the > > &obscenity "control center" and it doesn't make any &obscenity > > difference. I HATE GUI's. Give me a CLI any day.</rant> > > Nautilus looks at the file header to determine what file type it is. > Open/StarOffice files *are* zip files. Unzip the file, and you get 3 > files: one xml, one css, and something else I don't remember at the > moment. THere may be a way to disable Nautilus from looking at the file > header to determine it's type. Maybe you need to tell it to only look at > the file extension? Dunno -- I use gnome-terminal (cd, ls, etc.) for my > file manager :-) > Thanks for the info. Google reveals that this is actually a misfeature of gnome-vfs, rather than a problem with Nautilus per se. Sadly, no one seems to know what to do about it, at least from what I can see on the web discussions. Seems like mime types need SUBtypes.... R