.sxw files now .zip

Daniel Armstrong offshoredan-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 30 19:32:40 UTC 2003


--- Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:57, Daniel Armstrong
> wrote:
> 
> > I even tried modifying file treatment so that the
> > default application for opening zip files would be
> > OpenOffice Writer 1.1, but a left-click on the
> .sxw
> > icon still only breaks down the file into its xml
> > components. Only by manually opening the file does
> it
> > display properly in OpenOffice.
> >
> > My question is... How do I restore KDE settings to
> see
> > .sxw as OpenOffice files?
> 
> When I right-click on a .sxw file and select "edit
> file type" I get the 
> following:
> 
> - filename patterns, *.sxw ... add that if you don't
> see it, probably remove
>   other things
> - Description, OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document
> - Application Preference Order, OOO 1.1.0 Math, OOO
> 1.1.0 Writer, OO Writer
> 
> Clearly my application preference order doesn't make
> a lot of sense but it 
> works.  Make sure you have an application pointing
> to /usr/bin/oowriter (or 
> whatever your binary is for that).

I have edited the file prefix to .sxw and added
'/usr/bin/oowriter' as the application to use, but KDE
continues to see these OpenOffice Writer .sxw files as
type 'application/x-zip'?!

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