why only abiword in preferred applications?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 20:14 -0700, James Earl wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 20:35 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:26:53 -0800, Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:
> > 
> > You can change that by go to nautilus -> right click on text editor file  
> > -> 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.
> 
> I'm all for that.
> 
> Is there a way to allow AbiWord to associate itself with text/plain, but
> not replace gedit as the default?

Just do what Mezz said, and get properties on a text file, and add
AbiWord to the Open With... list.  You can leave gedit as the default,
but now AbiWord will show up in the right-click menu.

Joe

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