Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3280 mails)

[Jason Craig <jacraig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:39:44 -0000, Jason Craig <jacraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Furthermore, is there some way to change the behavior in Konqueror (now
> > I'm browsing local files) such that when I double click a text document
> > it will open it for EDITING instead of just for looking at it?  There
> > doesn't seem to be anything that controls this in the aforementioned
> > file associations menu, and I would far rather retain my habit of double
> > clicking rather than "right click, open with, kwrite".
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Jason
>
> Hi Jason,
> If I've understood you correctly, what you want to look at is the
> "embedding" tab on the right hand side of the file associations
> screen. Look up "txt" for example. By default it's set to use embedded
> viewing which means it previews within Konq. Change it so that it uses
> external viewer and set that to Kwrite. Same if you want to view jpegs
> in a separate viewer and so on. Check it out, you'll see how it works.
> Hope that helps,
> David

Yep, that's exactly what I wanted as far as local files!  Thanks David
and Kai as well.  Now, does anyone know where Firefox is getting its
associations from (where it wants to use KGhostView instead of KPDF -
what is set up in KDE file associations)?

thanks,
--Jason
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