On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:43:47 +0200
Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 09 October 2017, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > When I start kmail without "starttde" - from xterm under fvwm for example -
> > then klicking on a *.pdf in kmail results in a dialog popping up ("What
> > application ..."). "kcontrol" starts with an empty splitscreen window, no
> > modules visible.
> Same for me starting TDE applications. Not only Kmail asks for the kind of
> program to be used to open any application. Even Konqueror asks for it when
> adviced to open something in an external window. It opens PDF, PNG and others
> fine in its internal viewer though.
It sounds to me like KMail etc. are failing to find a list of associations between
mimetypes and applications, but I'm not sure where that information is stored (I
do seem to remember than KDE3 did not follow the standard for storing that
information that's now used by most desktops--did we ever update?)
E. Liddell
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