[arch-general] File Associations for firefox & thunderbird :)^

[Nathan Wayde]

On 15/06/10 09:19, Peter Lewis wrote:
> 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.
>
Have you tried simply pressin ok when it asks you? Mozilla apps have a 
nasty bug?/annoyance wherein the dialog pops up asking you to specifify 
the program to use when in fact it knows your last preference. Also, if 
in the case it works, you don't need, and prolly should enter the 
command that opens it, instead use xdg-open and your preferred program 
will be launch even after you change it.