Change default and preferred applications in GNOME
When you open up Nautilus you will see plenty of files and folders. Most of those files are double-click-able icons when, when double clicked, will open with the associated application. Take for instance image files: When you double click on an image icon, by default, the application “Eye of GNOME†will open that file. The Eye of GNOME is an image viewing application and that is pretty much all it does (although it has a few bells an whistles). But what if you wanted that file to automatically open with The GIMP for image editing? There are a couple of ways to do this: For that single instance, or for all instances.
In this article I will show you how to change the default application for different files as well as change the preferred applications for the GNOME desktop (in another article I will illustrate the same task in KDE). And, naturally, this action is reversible.
Change default and preferred applications in KDE
In my last article, “Change default and preferred applications in GNOME“, I illustrated how to change the default applications that will launch in association with certain file types. Now it is time to reciprocate for the KDE desktop environment.
Many people assume the KDE desktop environment is just as flexible as the GNOME desktop. In most ways it is. But there are some instances where you might find KDE not quite as intuitive as GNOME. Does that mean it's less flexible? Not necessarily. But there are certain instances where figuring out how to configure default applications might not be as easy as you would think. That is where Ghacks comes in. And in this article I will show you just how to get KDE icon double clicks to work exactly as you would expect them to.
When you open up Nautilus you will see plenty of files and folders. Most of those files are double-click-able icons when, when double clicked, will open with the associated application. Take for instance image files: When you double click on an image icon, by default, the application “Eye of GNOME†will open that file. The Eye of GNOME is an image viewing application and that is pretty much all it does (although it has a few bells an whistles). But what if you wanted that file to automatically open with The GIMP for image editing? There are a couple of ways to do this: For that single instance, or for all instances.
In this article I will show you how to change the default application for different files as well as change the preferred applications for the GNOME desktop (in another article I will illustrate the same task in KDE). And, naturally, this action is reversible.
Change default and preferred applications in KDE
In my last article, “Change default and preferred applications in GNOME“, I illustrated how to change the default applications that will launch in association with certain file types. Now it is time to reciprocate for the KDE desktop environment.
Many people assume the KDE desktop environment is just as flexible as the GNOME desktop. In most ways it is. But there are some instances where you might find KDE not quite as intuitive as GNOME. Does that mean it's less flexible? Not necessarily. But there are certain instances where figuring out how to configure default applications might not be as easy as you would think. That is where Ghacks comes in. And in this article I will show you just how to get KDE icon double clicks to work exactly as you would expect them to.