Thread: How To : Associate MPlayer, Transmission, and other apps as default handlers
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2010-06-11 , 16:34
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#214
Originally Posted by qole View Post
It is working fine for me on my N900.

OpenOffice Writer opens my Word documents, both from the file manager and from e-mail, and Evince opens my PDFs.

You just have to remember with PDF (and other types with apps already associated) to go to the defaults tab and switch that type to dbus-switchboard.
I've installed dbus-switchboard, and found that it works very nicely indeed although it took me a while to figure out that from file manager I have to look for dbus-switchboard in the list of possible and impossible applications to open an odt file with.

From the browser, it immediately launched OO Writer when clicking on an odt file, but when I did so for the first time, at one point during the long wait for OO, mypaint opened on top of it, and I swear I haven't even touched the phone while it was doing that. I have to see whether this is reproducible, since so far it's a one-timer.
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