On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:08:28 +0000, Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > d > anyone know, offhand, why Juk, among other things, is ripped out of KDE > in a default FC install? And I have been unable to install it! I installed kde-multimedia, but no juk! And I can find no standalone app for juk 2. How is juk to be installed on FC3? Dotan english-lyrics.com
