File association defaults

[Mark Greenwood]

On Saturday 06 Mar 2010 23:41:28 Steve Morris wrote:
> 
> On 06/03/10 13:31, Clay Weber wrote:
> > On Friday 05 March 2010 08:12:43 pm Steve Morris wrote:
> >    
> >> I am having an issue with file association defaults in Kubuntu/Ubuntu.
> >> In Firefox the default for pdf mimetypes was to ask for information on
> >> how they should be handled. When the dialogue box pops up as a result of
> >> clicking on the link, the open with entry lists Ocular as the default,
> >> but if I look at the kde file associations for pdf files the first
> >> application listed in the list of handling applications is Acrobat. If I
> >> click on the Open with dropdown it only specifies Ocular not all the
> >> applications listed in the kde file associations as being able to handle
> >> pdf files.
> >> Hence the questions I have are:
> >>
> >>      * What in Kubuntu/Ubuntu constitutes the default application for a
> >>        file type and where is specified/modified.
> >>      
> > In System Settings' File Associations area
> >    
> That is where I looked and was why I was querying why the application 
> listed by the firefox prompt dialog did not match this.
> >    
> >>      * Why does the open with entry in the dialogue box (I'm assuming
> >>        this is gtk) not appear to honour the kde configuration,
> >>        particularly when if I double click a pdf file in krusader if
> >>        opens acrobat to display it as indicated by the kde file
> >> associations.
> >>      
> > because firefox may use it's own  method for determining file associations, it
> > has it's own unique settings that seem to be independent of what the system
> > default is.
> >
> > Wow, downloading acrobat now, sure is a pig:
> >
> > $The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >    acroread
> > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 63.5MB of archives.
> > After this operation, 153MB of additional disk space will be used.
> >
> > What I have discovered is that when installing acroread via the commandline,
> > it offers the choice of setting the systemwide file association for pdf to
> > acroread (and does so for my firefox setup - it is the fist thing in the
> > dropdown list). This option I know does not happen using KPackagekit as it
> > doesn't yet support this sort of apt dialog. This probably explains why
> > Firefox does not see this, though KDE still seems to notice the change, or
> > automatically puts newly installed things at the top of the list in terms of
> > file associations.
> >    
> I installed Acroread via Synaptic which does support that sort of apt 
> dialogue and I did select the system wide file association. As I 
> understand it Firefox is using gtk as its gui interface, so I am 
> assuming the dialog that pops up to canvas what the user wants to do is 
> a standard gtk dialog that should be obeying kde or gnome settings 
> depending on the desktop being used, hence in the open with dialog it 
> should show all applications configured as handling pdf files, or am I 
> missing something here?

I don't think firefox honours any of the desktop settings, there are ways to set firefox's associations but I can't remember what they are. Google.

mark
> 
> regards,
> Steve
> 
> >    
> >> regards,
> >> Steve
> >>      
> >    
>