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Installed Mageia 5, then added the AbiWord word processor. Docs I create are saved with the .abw extension, but when I click on one in the Dolphin file browser they open in the Konqueror web browser. Is there a way to make these files open in AbiWord by default? FYI - I didn't have this problem in Mageia 4.

TIA,

jbarntt56

In System Settings - Common Appearance - File Associations, enter .abw in the "Find file type" box. Expand the "application " header and select abiword. Then move abiword to the top of the list of preferred applications.

Jim

If you can reproduce the issue with a freshly created user account, that would warrant a bug report so that the mime definitions for abiword are corrected.
If that's the case, please report that as a bug, after searching if it hasn't been reported yet already: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly
For completeness's sake and also to allow others to follow up on that bug report, please also post the link to it here in the thread, thanks.

Thanks Doc, I created a new account, results are the same: my test AbiWord doc opens in Konqueror. Will do as you say re: reporting a bug.

Thanks,

jbarntt56

jkerr82508 wrote:In System Settings - Common Appearance - File Associations, enter .abw in the "Find file type" box. Expand the "application " header and select abiword. Then move abiword to the top of the list of preferred applications.

Jim

Thanks, I will do that. but will do as Doc says in the post after yours.

jbarntt56

Hi Doc,

I didn't find a bug report for this issue, but I did find that reporting a bug is a major pain in the butt. I don't have the time to wade through it. The bug exists, and there is a way to fix it on my end, so I'll fix it for myself. Making it difficult to report a bug by an ordinary user is not a good thing.

jbarntt56

jkerr82508 wrote:In System Settings - Common Appearance - File Associations, enter .abw in the "Find file type" box. Expand the "application " header and select abiword. Then move abiword to the top of the list of preferred applications.

Jim

Worked like a charm.

Thanks,

jbarntt

Hi Doc,

Okay, I think I was able to file a bug report:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16625

Sorry to be a bit out of sorts, long day for me

jbarntt

Thanks for taking your time and reporting it.
Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks