I'm feeling really stupid. I have an installation of Trinity on Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email. For some reason, it wants to open PDF files in GIMP. I see the same thing in other Gnome applications like Evolution.
I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to select an application (like KPDF or acroread). I installed kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help. I even installed Nautilus and tried setting the application association there. That at least presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove. I installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application associations.
Short of finding which defaults.list file it is looking at and manually editing it or manually setting it in mimetypes.rdf, how does one set this in a Trinity only environment (in that Gnome desktop is not installed)? Thanks - John
I'm feeling really stupid. I have an installation of Trinity on Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email. For some reason, it wants to open PDF files in GIMP. I see the same thing in other Gnome applications like Evolution.
I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to select an application (like KPDF or acroread). I installed kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help. I even installed Nautilus and tried setting the application association there. That at least presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove. I installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application associations.
Short of finding which defaults.list file it is looking at and manually editing it or manually setting it in mimetypes.rdf, how does one set this in a Trinity only environment (in that Gnome desktop is not installed)? Thanks - John
It isn't very easy. You can try going to Iceweasel->Edit->Preferences->Applications and adding your overrides there, but that is the extent of my Gnome/Firefox knowlege.
Tim
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:12 -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I'm feeling really stupid. I have an installation of Trinity on Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email. For some reason, it wants to open PDF files in GIMP. I see the same thing in other Gnome applications like Evolution.
I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to select an application (like KPDF or acroread). I installed kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help. I even installed Nautilus and tried setting the application association there. That at least presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove. I installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application associations.
Short of finding which defaults.list file it is looking at and manually editing it or manually setting it in mimetypes.rdf, how does one set this in a Trinity only environment (in that Gnome desktop is not installed)? Thanks - John
It isn't very easy. You can try going to Iceweasel->Edit->Preferences->Applications and adding your overrides there, but that is the extent of my Gnome/Firefox knowlege.
Tim
<snip> Thanks, Tim. Unfortunately, that part is not working - at least in Icedove. It shows GIMP and Other . . . but, if I click on Other . . . no dialog appears to choose the application. It's almost like something is missing. I really don't want to install Gnome desktop and, even if I did, for some reason, it wants to uninstall Trinity! - John
On Thursday 27 January 2011 05:48:39 pm John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:12 -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I'm feeling really stupid. I have an installation of Trinity on Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email. For some reason, it wants to open PDF files in GIMP. I see the same thing in other Gnome applications like Evolution.
I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to select an application (like KPDF or acroread). I installed kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help. I even installed Nautilus and tried setting the application association there. That at least presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove. I installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application associations.
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Trinity on Squeeze, Icedove brings up the dialog box for other applications here. 'edit>preferences>attachments>Portable Document Format '
The default is 'always ask, but the drop down list has Gimp, evince & other. The other bring up the selection box for navigating to the app.
it seems like something is missing or mis-configured.
FYI, Gnome Desktop might not work since Icedove is not a Gnome app, "The goal of Icedove is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language."
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 19:14 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 05:48:39 pm John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:12 -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I'm feeling really stupid. I have an installation of Trinity on Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email. For some reason, it wants to open PDF files in GIMP. I see the same thing in other Gnome applications like Evolution.
I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to select an application (like KPDF or acroread). I installed kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help. I even installed Nautilus and tried setting the application association there. That at least presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove. I installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application associations.
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Trinity on Squeeze, Icedove brings up the dialog box for other applications here. 'edit>preferences>attachments>Portable Document Format '
The default is 'always ask, but the drop down list has Gimp, evince & other. The other bring up the selection box for navigating to the app.
it seems like something is missing or mis-configured.
FYI, Gnome Desktop might not work since Icedove is not a Gnome app, "The goal of Icedove is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language."
Thanks. At least I know it's not a Trinity issue now. I'll have to figure out what is missing that I do not get the selection box. I was hoping kgtk-config-icedove would make it use the KDE information and selection box but it is still pulling the Gnome one. Thanks again - John
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 03:48 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 19:14 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 05:48:39 pm John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:12 -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
I'm feeling really stupid. I have an installation of Trinity on Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email. For some reason, it wants to open PDF files in GIMP. I see the same thing in other Gnome applications like Evolution.
I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to select an application (like KPDF or acroread). I installed kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help. I even installed Nautilus and tried setting the application association there. That at least presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove. I installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application associations.
snip
Trinity on Squeeze, Icedove brings up the dialog box for other applications here. 'edit>preferences>attachments>Portable Document Format '
The default is 'always ask, but the drop down list has Gimp, evince & other. The other bring up the selection box for navigating to the app.
it seems like something is missing or mis-configured.
FYI, Gnome Desktop might not work since Icedove is not a Gnome app, "The goal of Icedove is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language."
Thanks. At least I know it's not a Trinity issue now. I'll have to figure out what is missing that I do not get the selection box. I was hoping kgtk-config-icedove would make it use the KDE information and selection box but it is still pulling the Gnome one. Thanks again - John
<snip> Hmm . . . just did an apt-get --reinstall intall icedove. I noticed it pulls in desktop-file-utils so I reinstalled that. I started Icedove, went to properties / applications chose other and I got a KDE dialog! I'm guessing it was not the reinstallation but the reboot after installing kgtk-config-icedove. I did make sure Icedove had been restart using the wrapper but I had not restarted my Trinity session. I any event, I'm happy, the user is happy, and it's working. Thanks again - John
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