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.
