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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:42:50AM +0100, Javier Arantegui wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> El Lunes, 29 de Octubre de 2007, Karl Winterling escribió:
> > Hi.  I know that this may be more of a general UNIX/KDE related question,
> > but how do I get TeXmacs to open .tm files when I click on them without
> > having it open all plain text documents?  Is it possible to define a new
> > MIME type or something?  I am using Kubuntu 7.10 (so Dolphin is my default
> > file manager).
> 
> This should be easy. Please, keep in mind that I'm using KDE in Spanish and 
> some translations could be wrong, but they shouldn't be much different. My 
> distro is Kubuntu 7.04. I think that if you configure correctly Konqueror, 
> the change will be refected on Dolphin too.
> 
> Open Konqueror and go to the Menu Preferences -> Configure Konqueror. 
> There, 
> in File associations press the button Add. As Group I used 'Text' and as 
> Type 
> name 'TeXmacs'. Then you need only to fill all the required data. In 
> Kubuntu 
> 7.04, the icons are in /usr/share/texmacs/TeXmacs/misc/pixmaps/. The 
> extension of TeXmacs files is *.tm. Use your favourite description. Finally 
> you need to select the application to open the documents.

Note: it is difficult to maintain this type of thing,
because conventions change all the time.
Of course, any patches which make TeXmacs behave as it should
under various desktop environments are welcome.
Usually, it is just a matter of adding a small configuration file
at the right place.

Best wishes, Joris