On Sunday 13 February 2005 17:43, Dave wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:21 pm, David Curry wrote: > > Dave wrote: > > >Is there any (simple) way to tell FC3 that I want all the default > > > application handlers to be the KDE programs, not the Gnome ones? I'm > > > sick > > > > In FC2, Dave, at the logon screen one may choose the type of desktop one > > wants to run by clicking on the word "session" at the bottom of the > > screen and then choosing the desktop if more than one desktop has been > > installed on the system. After reading your message, I logged off of my > > Gnome desktop session, selected KDE desktop session, logged back on to > > the system, launched Konqueror, pointed the browser at /etc, and double > > clicked on a .conf file. Kwrite opened displaying the .conf file so > > Kwrite is the designated default helper app in the browser. I expect > > KDE apps are the default apps throughout that desktop. > > I'm running FC3. My default desktop is KDE--not by choosing each session > when I login, but by changing the default. Nevertheless, the default > association for Text/Plain, for example, is Gedit. The default association > for jpeg is gnome-eog. Is there any way, aside from going through each and > every association and manually fixing it, to tell FC3 I was serious when I > said I wanted KDE? Unfortunately the file associations are not automatically switched to the KDE apps just because you chose it as your desktop. (I know, I am in the same position). The following may be telling you what you already know, but here goes nothing: The only way that I know of to change this is Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations. Although you can change extensions very quickly in here. I find that I have to do this to stop using the unpleasant experience that is Rhythmbox (anyone know, offhand, why Juk, among other things, is ripped out of KDE in a default FC install?). You can also do this on a per-filetype basis by right-clicking on the filetypes and clicking on the little 'Spanner' icon you'll see on the right-hand side. I have yet to find the exact file that this info is stored in. I was expecting something in ~/.kde/share/mimelnk but there's nowt there at the moment... An alternative is to install the kde packages from http://kde-redhat.sf.net which should have KDE defaults set up, as well as newer, more up to date versions, without any KDE apps selectively removed. (Unfortunately they don't do x86_64 packages, so this time out I'm screwed without a massive rebuilding project. Still, I might be tempted. KDE from scratch used to take about 14 hours on my old box) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX, RTFM, ASAP Real wealth can only increase. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
