On 3/14/25 11:58 PM, Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 3/13/25 2:30 AM, Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
On 2025/03/13 11:49 AM, Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 3/12/25 9:42 PM, Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
Seems pretty much that double-clicking on files in konqueror almost
always default to embedded viewing rather than external tools. While
this behavior can be changed for individual mime types, can this
behavior be change globally?
Changing every mime type to open in an external tool is a lot of
drudgery.
Thanks.
Not a solution but I found this bug report and short discussion:
https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768
the file association allows to change the settings for all files using
the "All" group, just set it to external view.
That is what I did (or perhaps was the default) and it works like a
charm.
No charm here. Seems I have to set every #$%^*%# mime type to open in a
an external viewer. I wish I knew what I am doing wrong.
Try, try again!
Digging further into this, looks like I raised this topic about 13 years
ago in this list.
Unless explicitly declared false, seems the default behavior is
AutoEmbed=true. This design decision probably goes back to the days when
many users caught the fever that Konqueror should become a swiss army
knife of file managers.
I tested a fresh profile. All but a few mimetypes launch embedded.
Browsing the /opt/trinity mimelnk files does find some files explicitly
declared false, such as KOffice mimetypes.
Modifying the all and allfiles mimetypes to launch externally has no
effect for me. Two respective desktop files are created in
$TDEHOME/share/mimelnk containing X-TDE-AutoEmbed=false, but to no
avail. Seems these two associations should override everything else but
that is not what I see.
Likewise with checking the default of each top group (application,
audio, fonts, etc.). The default for each individual mimetype seem to be
'Use settings for $parent group', but that seems to be ignored too.
Seems a user should be able to configure the top groups to use external
separate viewers and be done.
To override this default behavior, I'm guessing the solution is heavy
patching mimelnk desktop files when compiling the packages or creating a
large collection of mimelnk desktop files stored in a central $TDEDIRS
(plural, not TDEDIR single) directory. Looks like the $TDEDIRS approach
is how I tackled the problem back in the KDE 3 and early TDE days.
Individually modifying every single mimetype to launch externally
results in a gob of desktop files being created in
$TDEHOME/share/mimelnk and a hugely convoluted
$TDEHOME/share/config/profilerc file.
Perhaps I am doing something so fundamentally obtuse that nobody can see
the cause no matter how I describe the problem. I really would like to
resolve this default embedded behavior in some kind of simple and sane
manner. Perhaps I am just too old school expecting to view everything in
an external tool. :)
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