why only abiword in preferred applications?

[Jeremy Messenger]

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  
-> 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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