Hello, the default file manager for TDE is Konqueror, also Dolphin is available in the repos, is either of them capable of communicating with modern versions of Firefox to do things such as opening folders and selecting (highlight) the downloaded files?
Also, as I remember when I used TDE about a year ago, once a foreign file manager is installed (say Caja or pcmanfm) Firefox automatically starts using them to show downloaded files and forgets completely about Konqueror and Dolphin, I know that it's known bug in Firefox, but is there a tested work-around to fix that? Can a TDE user force Firefox to use Konqueror or Dolphin to open files?
So my msg contains two questions:
1) Can Firefox communicate with Konqueror or Dolphin to show/highlight my downloaded files and to access my folders?
2) Can I force Firefox to use Konqueror (or Dolphin) as my prefered file manager?
Hi!
Anno domini 06:53:24 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 +0200 (CEST) jakolineplayer--- via tde-users scripsit:
Hello, the default file manager for TDE is Konqueror, also Dolphin is available in the repos, is either of them capable of communicating with modern versions of Firefox to do things such as opening folders and selecting (highlight) the downloaded files?
Also, as I remember when I used TDE about a year ago, once a foreign file manager is installed (say Caja or pcmanfm) Firefox automatically starts using them to show downloaded files and forgets completely about Konqueror and Dolphin, I know that it's known bug in Firefox, but is there a tested work-around to fix that? Can a TDE user force Firefox to use Konqueror or Dolphin to open files?
So my msg contains two questions:
Can Firefox communicate with Konqueror or Dolphin to show/highlight my downloaded files and to access my folders?
Can I force Firefox to use Konqueror (or Dolphin) as my prefered file manager?
This may or may not work nowadays:
https://userbase.kde.org/Browser_Configuration/Firefox_Dialog_Integration
Keep in mind that a package "xdg-desktop-portal-tde" does not exist. You'll have to get the sources of xdg-desktop-portal-kde and modify to your needs. Don't install xdg-desktop-portal-kde, it'd pull in the whole KDE5 stuff.
Nik
jakolineplayer--- via tde-users wrote:
So my msg contains two questions:
- Can Firefox communicate with Konqueror or Dolphin to show/highlight my
downloaded files and to access my folders?
- Can I force Firefox to use Konqueror (or Dolphin) as my prefered file
manager?
I think it is a very good point/question.
I recall if I setup to ask what to do, I could select which application to use, but it seems that it is related to the MIME types associated with the file type in question.
After recent update it does not work.
Another aspect of integration I am missing is the dbus to pulse translation - for example disable screensaver when youtube video is running, integrate audio channel into KMix ... a lot of work.
Can someone open a ticket or two in Gitea?
BR
jakolineplayer--- via tde-users wrote:
Hello, the default file manager for TDE is Konqueror, also Dolphin is available in the repos, is either of them capable of communicating with modern versions of Firefox to do things such as opening folders and selecting (highlight) the downloaded files?
Also, as I remember when I used TDE about a year ago, once a foreign file manager is installed (say Caja or pcmanfm) Firefox automatically starts using them to show downloaded files and forgets completely about Konqueror and Dolphin, I know that it's known bug in Firefox, but is there a tested work-around to fix that? Can a TDE user force Firefox to use Konqueror or Dolphin to open files?
So my msg contains two questions:
- Can Firefox communicate with Konqueror or Dolphin to show/highlight my
downloaded files and to access my folders?
- Can I force Firefox to use Konqueror (or Dolphin) as my prefered file
manager?
Hi :)
Regarding #1, I haven't seen any Linux file manager do that. What kind of UI interaction in Firefox would you expect to trigger the selection/highlight of files in a file manager? I only know of options to either open/execute a downloaded file or opening its parent folder from Firefox.
Regarding #2: I just tried it on my system and even installed Caja to provoke this behavior but it still opens with Konqueror by default. Then I read https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/504071
... and added the following line to my "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" file:
inode/directory=caja.desktop
I didn't even need to restart Firefox, it already opened Caja the next time I clicked on the little folder icon next to a downloaded file in the downloads list. As soon as I removed that line from the aforementioned file again, Firefox returned to using Konqueror instantly.
Can you check if you have such "inode/directory" entry in your "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" and remove it if there is any? If there isn't any such entry you could try adding "inode/directory=konqueror.desktop" instead.
Best regards, Leskala
On Tuesday 28 June 2022 12:36:08 pm Leskala via tde-users wrote:
Regarding #2: I just tried it on my system and even installed Caja to provoke this behavior but it still opens with Konqueror by default. Then I read https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/504071
... and added the following line to my "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" file:
inode/directory=caja.desktop
I didn't even need to restart Firefox, it already opened Caja the next time I clicked on the little folder icon next to a downloaded file in the downloads list. As soon as I removed that line from the aforementioned file again, Firefox returned to using Konqueror instantly.
Can you check if you have such "inode/directory" entry in your "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" and remove it if there is any? If there isn't any such entry you could try adding "inode/directory=konqueror.desktop" instead.
You can also set more mine type options in:
Menu >> Trinity Control Center >> TDE Components >> File Associations
Which seems to override the .config/mimeapps.list file.
Best, Michael
Michael wrote:
On Tuesday 28 June 2022 12:36:08 pm Leskala via tde-users wrote:
Regarding #2: I just tried it on my system and even installed Caja to provoke this behavior but it still opens with Konqueror by default. Then I read https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/504071
... and added the following line to my "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" file:
inode/directory=caja.desktop
I didn't even need to restart Firefox, it already opened Caja the next time I clicked on the little folder icon next to a downloaded file in the downloads list. As soon as I removed that line from the aforementioned file again, Firefox returned to using Konqueror instantly.
Can you check if you have such "inode/directory" entry in your "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" and remove it if there is any? If there isn't any such entry you could try adding "inode/directory=konqueror.desktop" instead.
You can also set more mine type options in:
Menu >> Trinity Control Center >> TDE Components >> File Associations
Which seems to override the .config/mimeapps.list file.
Best, Michael ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@trinitydesktop.org Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt op.org
Actually I tried that while attempting to reproduce the issue. But moving Caja to the top of the list for inode/directory in the File Associations panel of TDE didn't have any effect on Firefox. Though I didn't attempt to restart TDE after this change to be honest, just Firefox.
On the other hand, my change to "$HOME/.config/mimeapps.list" applied immediately to Firefox without restarting anything.
Best regards, Leskala
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