Dave Sherman writes:
 > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 20:54, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote:
 > > 
 > > Anyone using this beast?
 > > 
 > > I'm desperate to set up a non-computer person with a desktop on a
 > > Mandrake 8.1 system.  KDE is ALMOST right --- the desktop's great, but
 > > <rant>konqueror is totally bagbiting as a file manager (for heaven's
 > > sake, to make a new "folder," you gotta go under the Edit menu (which
 > > NO ONE uses for that), then open the create new choice, THEN choose
 > > directory (which only people like me know is what a folder really
 > > is). </rant>
 > 
 > I normally use Gnome, but IIRC, you can right-click pretty much anywhere
 > in the Konqueror window (the right side you're if in split-pane view)
 > and create a new folder/directory that way.

Sadly, I'm trying to set things up for someone who's pretty much a
proof of the Apple argument for one-button mice.

 > 
 > > So... I thought of nautilus.  But nautilus thinks star writer
 > > documents are zip archives and no matter what I do, I can't change
 > > it's mind.  <rant>I changed the &obscenity "file associations" in the
 > > &obscenity "control center" and it doesn't make any &obscenity
 > > difference.  I HATE GUI's.  Give me a CLI any day.</rant>
 > 
 > Nautilus looks at the file header to determine what file type it is.
 > Open/StarOffice files *are* zip files. Unzip the file, and you get 3
 > files: one xml, one css, and something else I don't remember at the
 > moment. THere may be a way to disable Nautilus from looking at the file
 > header to determine it's type. Maybe you need to tell it to only look at
 > the file extension? Dunno -- I use gnome-terminal (cd, ls, etc.) for my
 > file manager :-)
 > 

Thanks for the info.  Google reveals that this is actually a
misfeature of gnome-vfs, rather than a problem with Nautilus per se.
Sadly, no one seems to know what to do about it, at least from what I
can see on the web discussions.

Seems like mime types need SUBtypes....

R