Symphony ba$tards

Orion

OK this is now really getting on my tits. A good while back I installed Symphony (yeah yeah I know - it was beta then too ). Anyway moving on ...

It was crap so I uninstalled it. Since then the icons are still Symphony ones - I read about why - basically really **** coding from Lotus. But even after removing it they stayed as Symphony icons. I know I can change them but haven't got around to it. So moving on once more ...

Until tonight all .ods docs have been associated with Symphony - I have to right click, Open With and select OO.o Calc. I've lived with it. But tonight I also decided to remove the base Ubuntu installation of OO.o and install 2.4 myself. All installed fine - I've now got the real OO - not Canonical's version of it. And hey - look what's happened - now .odt files think they're Symphony files too. An hour ago they had the Symphony icon but would open in oo. Now I have to right-click, Open With for odt files as well.

Please please tell me how to fix this!

Apart from anything else Lotus have really ****ed themselves with this behaviour. Just google the reaction to the root changes the installation made - Symphony is doomed to failure as a result.

But apart from that Please please tell me how to fix this!

corkie

Linux File Associations

1. Right-click on a file of the type you wish to set a default application to open it with
2. Select Properties
3. Select the Open With tab (all makes sense, now, doesn’t it??)
4. Select the application you want associated with that file-type
5. Click OK

Orion

Macros42 wrote: »

I have to right click, Open With and select OO.o Calc.

corkie wrote: »

3. Select the Open With tab (all makes sense, now, doesn’t it??)
4. Select the application you want associated with that file-type
5. Click OK[/URL]

It opens the files but doesn't associate them. Look at the image below. It says they're OO files but the default app to open them is IBM Lotus Symphony and I have to manually select OO each time.

muggyog

What happens if you associate them with some other text reader do they still try to open in Symphony?

Orion

Look at the screenie. They think they are OO files but still try to open in Symphony. I've tried other associations but it won't change.

NotMe

Macros42 wrote: »

I have to right click, Open With and select OO.o Calc.

3. Select the Open With tab (all makes sense, now, doesn’t it??)
4. Select the application you want associated with that file-type
5. Click OK[/url]

It opens the files but doesn't associate them. Look at the image below. It says they're OO files but the default app to open them is IBM Lotus Symphony and I have to manually select OO each time.

I think you missed step 1 and 2. :pac: Right-click and select properties and then the open with tab.. not just right-click and open with.
Are they set to open with Openoffice there?

Orion

OMG it was that easy Never even looked there - feel like a noob now

Thanks a mill.

Now I just need to set aside some time to fix the mimetypes for the icons.