Bug#251376: How to change 'abiword' as XML viewer back to 'yelp'

Frank Küster frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster), 251376@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:42:58 +0200


tags 251376 -sid
stop

I'm removing the sid tag. It says that the problem occurs only on
non-released architectures, which is clearly wrong.

Alfie Costa <agcosta@gmx.net> wrote:

> Found a way to change 'abiword' as XML viewer back to 'yelp'.
>
>  From the Gnome Start menu, (its button looks like a footprint on my
> task bar), click:
> 'Applications>Desktop Preferences>Advanced>File Types and Programs'

Any idea how this can be accessed when no Gnome frontend (however this
is called) is running? I'm a user of wdm without any desktop
environment, but I use yelp as help browser for gnumeric.

> Hilite 'Documents>Extended Markup Language (XML)>XML document   .xml',
> then click the 'Edit' button.  An 'Edit file type' box pops up, near
> the bottom of which are two fields:
>
> 1	'Default action' (mine said 'custom')
> 2	'Program to run' (mine said 'abiword')
>
> Change the 2nd field to 'yelp', then click 'OK'; close the 'File Types
> and Programs' box.  Now 'yelp' (not 'abiword') shows XML again.

That sounds as if yelp was trying to open the file for _editing_ in
abiword (or gvim or GNU Emacs for me). Why on earth should I want to
edit it?

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie