https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026#c1 Wolfgang Rosenauer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |rschaffter@comcast.net --- Comment #1 from Wolfgang Rosenauer 2008-12-03 11:54:12 MST --- Please provide more information about the ZIP you wanted to open. I need to know the exact file extension _and_ which content-type the webserver was sending along for the file. So if it was from a public webserver please let us know the URL and if not you might get some useful information when running firefox after exporting export NSPR_LOG_MODULES=HelperAppService:5 and reproducing the issue and attach the console output. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026 User rschaffter@comcast.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026#c3 --- Comment #3 from Rod Schaffter 2008-12-03 13:55:17 MST --- Created an attachment (id=257856) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=257856) Console output from export NSPR_LOG_MODULES=HelperAppService:5 I loaded up Firefox, downloaded a Zip file, and attempted to open it from the Downloads Window. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026 User wolfgang@rosenauer.org added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026#c5 --- Comment #5 from Wolfgang Rosenauer 2008-12-03 15:46:09 MST --- Ok, let me explain a bit how this works in Firefox. There is a list of helper applications in the preferences but these are just additional selections used to override the "automatic" mechanism to find the helper application to open some file. Every desktop application provides a desktop file where it defines mime-types for all types the application is able to handle. That includes PDF in Gimp and zip in Wine. Some SuSEconfig and mime-info magic chooses one default application which seems to fit best for certain types. Since Firefox uses gnome-vfs to determine that stuff it actually prefers Gnome and Gtk applications as long as they are installed. If they are not installed gnome-vfs falls back (I guess) to the first hit for a certain mime-type which is probably not the best option. Please check on your system the file /usr/share/applications/defaults.list and look up which desktop file it mentions for "application/zip" and "application/pdf" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026 User rschaffter@comcast.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026#c7 --- Comment #7 from Rod Schaffter 2008-12-03 19:56:16 MST --- I deleted the above two lines from defaults.list and restarted Firefox and all works as it should. Should I file a new bug roport, or can this one be transfered to the appropriate group? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026 User sbrabec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026#c9 Stanislav Brabec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low --- Comment #9 from Stanislav Brabec 2008-12-04 02:10:48 MST --- The problem is apparent. The fix is not trivial. As gnome-vfs is a GNOME application, it (AFAIK correctly) should prefer GNOME applications. In this case, no GNOME applications are present. Even if GNOME ZIP archiver (file-roller) will be present, KDE user will not be satisfied with the result (using file-roller instead of Ark). default.list cannot be changed on fly, as GNOME and KDE users can work in parallel on the same machine. Fixes I can imagine: 1. Firefox will not use gnome-vfs with KDE. 2. I will write just another SuSEconfig script. It will do exactly the same like the current one, but it will prefer Qt/KDE applications instead of GTK/GNOME, read /etc/kde.defaults and save its result into /usr/share/applications/kde/defaults.list or so. Setting an environment variable (either some of GNOME* or XDG*) will force these gnome-vfs2 defaults under KDE. Well, people using XFCE,... may complain in the same way, so probably rewritten of SuSEconfig scripts may create several versions of 3. Use defaults.list in the home directory generated by the KDE startup scripts. 4. Do the 2., but patch libraries accessing defaults.list. As defaults.list is used by GIO as well, the problem may raise over the time. Note: XDG code already supports some types of prefixes, so it needs a deeper research before patching. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026 User christiandehne@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456026#c11 Christian Trippe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |christiandehne@web.de --- Comment #11 from Christian Trippe 2009-02-21 01:06:52 MST --- I am not sure this bug has the right priority, as bug 461362 (the one marked a duplicate) is in my opinion a usability nightmare. Every not so experienced user will have problems to view pdf-files running Firefox in KDE (4.1). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.