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One thing I have noticed about

Konqueror 3.5.13 is embedded viewing is the

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default for just about everything.

I prefer to use the external app rather than the KPart

embedded viewers.

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When I migrate a KDE 3.5.10 profile to TDE none of

those settings remain.

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I'm thrown back to the embedded viewers.

Is there an easy or quick way to reverse this default

without having to

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manually reset them with each mimetype of app that is

opened?

You might want to verify that the desktop files in ~/.trinity/share/mimelnk/ are intact and pointing to the correct TDE binaries (i.e. if full paths to the external apps are specified with /usr/bin instead of /opt/trinity/bin TDE may resort to the default embedded viewers).

Other than that it Should Just Work (TM). ;-)

After I change the default and a new desktop file exists $KDEHOME/share/mimelnk, yes, the file opens externally. The problem is not file paths but system defaults. Many of the desktop files in $PREFIX/share/mimelnk are set to AutoEmbed=true.

Your response reminded me that in KDE3 I configured a KDEDIRS directory and through the years I saved many modified desktop files there.

I have not configured a KDEDIRS directory in TDE but apparently I need to do that.

Some people prefer embedded viewing and others don't. Seems there should be an easy way to override the defaults other than each time a user opens a file to first manually select the external app, which creates a new desktop file in $KDEHOME/share/mimelnk. :)

I suppose when I build my packages I could globally change all occurrences of AutoEmbed=true to AutoEmbed=false.

Darrell

What I would expect: first mouse button: embedded viewer middle mouse button: extenal viewer

This is how it always worked in KDE 3 (and before) as well.

Doesn't it work like that?

Possibly, but that would not resolve the desire to reverse the defaults to set external as the default. Further, not everybody uses "middle clicks." :)

Darrell