file association

beny · 07-07-2005, 08:45 AM

Hi there
I use Mandrake 10.1 and KDE 3.2 and am having an annoying "file association" problem. Everytime a new program is installed or the computer is rebooted the file associations I made are reseted. Is anyone having this kind of problem and managed to solve it?
Thanks
Beny

Tinkster · 07-08-2005, 01:48 AM

Which distro are you using?

KDE is often modified by maintainers, maybe sometimes
in not quite good ways...

beny · 07-08-2005, 10:16 AM

I am using Mandrake (official) 10.1

schleichmich · 07-09-2005, 12:11 PM

I had this problem on Mandrake 10, there is a thread on this in the Mandrake forums. I have a similar problem on PCLinuxOS now. It doesn't reset the settings on every boot, it's more like every other or so. Very weird, no solution that I know of.

One tip though: for browser settings, it helped to put an entry in the KDE control center "Components -> Component Chooser -> Web Browser". It seems this takes precedence over the file association settings.