Assogiate

But Mooooooom it wan't it like window$. Me just pointy clicky and then like magic the file i clicked opens in my favorite editor! Sigh... Did you ever have programmers (users) that worked their entire career on a single platform. Programmers that think everything should work like it used to... Programmers unwilling to learn new stuff?

I have a bunch of programmer rednecks who apparently need to point and click in "the configured file manager" to be able to open a source file. And these programmers want the same behavior on Linux as they have in Window$ file Exploder ... Sigh ...

Here's how: http://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/create-your-own-file-types-in-ubuntu-with-assogiate/.  In my case I had to create a debian package carrying the settings, enabling these programmers to use synaptic to install the extension.

Programmers? ... Go figure ..