Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Paul Webster wrote: Hi Not using any email client. I'm using gmail, and attachments are downloaded in Firefox. Paul There's a bug in firefox, not just restricted to Ubuntu, in that it doesn't open a Preferred Applications dialog, but simply an Open With... dialog. This is particularly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-11 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 11/07/09 11:05, Paul Webster wrote: Dear Alan Hi Paul, As the UK-Ubuntu list seems to be a spaghetti-like state at the moment (so it seems to me), I thought I'd send my reply to your kind advice directly to you, as you may not have seen it through the jungle (to switch metaphors). I saw

[ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Webster
Dear all I know I'm a pest with my incessant questions, but things just keep cropping up... When a word-processing file is downloaded (e.g. an email attachment), the following happens on my system: 1) If it is a .doc file, an Open Office 3.0 start-up window appears and makes a failed attempt to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 10/07/09 16:17, Paul Webster wrote: Dear all I know I'm a pest with my incessant questions, but things just keep cropping up... When a word-processing file is downloaded (e.g. an email attachment), the following happens on my system: What email client are you using? I use Thunderbird

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Webster
Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT? To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: 4aa51020907100817w319b238ap5806867f6aaf8...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear all I know I'm a pest with my incessant questions