why only abiword in preferred applications?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:35:31 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:26:53 -0800, Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
>
>> I cannot get gedit or anything else showing in the Default Text Editor
>> tab.  Select an Editor only shows abiword now.  I've reinstalled
>> gnomecontrolcenter2 and a few other things along with gedit2.  Nothing
>> has worked.  I've searched with the gconf editor and I do not see
>> abiword in there.  It sucks that all my clicks in nautilus now open
>> files in abiword :(
>
> You can change that by go to nautilus -> right click on text editor file

s/text editor file/text file/g

Cheers,
Mezz

> -> propteries -> Open With and select what you want the default to be. I  
> dislike what AbiWord team has decided to add text/plain in their  
> mimetype too. I can remove it from the *.desktop if I get the high vote.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> I haven't uninstalled abiword yet to see if that helps.  Should I?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sean


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