Subject: Re: Fw: 9.5 changing icon for MSWord documents
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 08:38:18 CST
There is a tick box in the installer that offers to Assciate Abiword
with .doc and .rtf
you should not have ticked it. i cant remember if it is off by default,
but i dont think so.
The document icon should match whatever program it is associated with
it. (That might not be what you meant, but im just making myself
totally clear).
It might be useful if abiword had differnt icons for differnent document
types, but that would require a fair bit of work and a talented artist
to provide lots of icons.
If you want to put in a bug report/request for enhancement to that
effect then please do (i might do it eventually myself if i remember).
Sincerely
Alan
Michael Leddy wrote:
>I just installed 9.5 (I'm using Windows 98se). Every MSWord document on my
>drive is now listed with the AbiWord document icon. If that's intended, I
>think it's a bad move--why should installing a new program change the icon
>for documents already created? I doubt that this change is likely to make
>new users confident and enthusiastic about AbiWord.
>
>I went to Folder Options and looked at File Types and found .doc now
>associated with AbiWord files. I couldn't figure out how to change that. I
>tried uninstalling AbiWord, and MSWord documents were still listed with the
>AbiWord icon. I ended up using GoBack.
>
>Has anyone else found the MSWord document icon changed after installing
>AbiWord? Is there any way to undo that change without just uninstalling
>AbiWord (and reverting one's hard drive)?
>
>I'm happy to see AbiWord opening files without the problems in 9.4 and
>saving files in .doc format, but this icon change seems to me to be a real
>problem.
>
>Michael
>
>
>
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