On Friday 27 February 2009 01:16, Kevin Kofler wrote: > RDB wrote: > > Out of desperation, I re-installed AdobeReader_enu via RPM. And suddenly > > KPDF works again, and KDE recognize PDF again. But still, What In The > > World Happened ? > > Adobe Reader mucks with the PDF mimetype settings and breaks things. > Usually it happens when you install it (but uninstalling does not fix it), > it's strange that for you it happens when uninstalling only. > > In any case, Fedora 8 is no longer supported and it's time to upgrade. > Incidentally that would also most likely "fix" your problem because KDE 4 > uses different mimetype settings. > > And hopefully this will teach you to leave your hands off broken > proprietary software which breaks your system next time. Hello, As I said, I don't want to use AdobeReader anymore. I had to use it at one time to fill out forms. I know that Okular can do that now, but not KPDF at the time. I very much dislike the fact that I have to use proprietary broken software as much as anyone, but sometime practicallity and time-pressure stumped idealism. More practically, do you have any suggestion on how to fix the problem with KDE 3.5 after un-installing AdobeReader ? also out of curiousity, where is this MIME type settings ? (I know F8 is no longer supported. My other system runs F10. This F8 is on a laptop that my wife uses all the time, and now is just not the right time to have a downtime due to upgrading to F10. ) Thanks. RDB --
