On Tuesday 15 Jun 2010 at 06:48 Madhurya Kakati wrote:
I am a full time KDE user and I don't have GNOME or its libraries. Firefox and Thunderbird keep asking me to choose applications to open .pdf, .doc, .xls, http://, etc. Is there no package which can fix the file associations for FF and TB ?
That's likely some xdg stuff. It usually works using gnome, KDE and xfce but nothing else. KDE probably has some preferences thing somewhere, otherwise you're pretty much as f..... as everyone who doesn't use a big DE. Hurray for 'Desktop Integration'..
I don't think so. xdg-settings --list gives on default-web-browser.
You can't use xdg-settings when you don't have one of the major DEs running, xdg-open falls back to a hardcoded array of browsers in that case. It's all quite awkward if you don't use gnome, kde or xfce. I know, doesn't really help with your problem..
Have you read the first line of my post properly ? I said I am a 100% KDE user.
tried system settings? the file associations there i guess.
I've come across this problem too. I've never managed to get Firefox to honour KDE's file associations (which is big negative IMO), but on one machine, it did remember what I told it to do. From memory, Firefox's file associations can be edited in Edit->Preferences->Content, but I'm not sure if Thunderbird has something similar, since I don't use it. So can Firefox use XDG? I was under the impression that it just managed its own associations. On another machine though, with an identical set-up, it continually asks for a binary to open the file with, and you have to point the file dialog to /usr/bin/okular or whatever. This is annoying, but I've no idea why it worked in one case by not the other. Pete.