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[Maf. King]

On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:36:11 +0100
>

> >
> > If anyone wants detailed instructions, I'll gladly share what I know!
>
> I use Krusader. I presume the file that has to be opened is the one
> without any extension. The Krusader context menu open-with offers
> Kwrite, gnumeric, Scribus, ..., Other
>
>
> Yes, please!
>

OK, this is what I've done on SuSE 10.2, GC 2.2.1 - there may be other ways, 
etc.

1. I use the .xac file extension for my data files, and always have, even 
though GC doesn't care about an extension. Maybe gc 1.6.x applied it by 
default all those years ago. Anyway, AFAIK, you will need the extension for 
this method to work.

2. create a mime-type for .xac files.  You can do this in konqueror by 
right-clicking on a gc datafile, selecting properties, then the little 
spanner button on the right of the dialog.  This will do an association per 
user.  However, I wanted to make the change system-wide, so  I put the file 
x-gnucash.desktop (as attached) in /usr/local/kde/share/mimelnk/application/

3. define an action for that mimetype - (which I think Josh has just altered 
in trunk...) add this line: 
MimeType=application/x-gnucash
to the file /opt/gnome/share/applications/gnucash.desktop

KDE picked up the changes after a few seconds, IIRC.

(Note: I used the mimetype application/x-gnucash as a user extension.  I 
suppose that if it is now in trunk, then application/gnucash may be more 
correct, also, there is no internationalisation in the .desktop file)

HTH,
Maf.
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