Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (277 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Oddball schrieb:
> Wolfgang Rosenauer schreef:
> > If you got an example please throw it on me. In the past quite some of
> > the cases where Firefox offered a really strange app it was for example
> > because of the good apps didn't have the correct mime-type in its
> > desktop file.
> >   
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476366#c11
> for a png.
>
> http://www.pdatotaal.info/forum/showthread.php?t=11730
> for a pdf file.
>
> I use standard factory, at this PC.

I'm using 11.1 but get the same result.
Ok, let me explain why that happens to you (most likely).
Firefox is using gnome-vfs so gnome-vfs prefers Gnome and Gtk apps by
default (which makes kind of sense). And you (see below) have most
likely no other Gnome/Gtk application installed which supports image/png.
So yes, the behaviour is not optimal especially for KDE users.
I'm wondering if it's possible to have some kind of "KDE mode" (if Gnome
is not installed at all) of the gnome_defaults.conf/glib2/defaults.list
mechanism which doesn't prefer Gnome and Gtk apps?

I also attached a tiny executable (not harmful ;-)) built for x86-64
which gives you some idea about the gnome-vfs/share-mime-info config on
your machine. Just run it and show us the output.



Wolfgang