Thanks Anders, I accept the kick in the proverbial :-) Just desperation as I am about to go to London and bought this new AMD64 laptop which has cost me hours of effort. Read on ... On Sunday 03 July 2005 13:07, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 03 July 2005 05:01, Colin Carter wrote:
As if I am browsing my hard disk with Konqueror and I select the 'UP' arrow button in the top left corner I just might want to open the superior directory with GIMP, or maybe with a media player ??? WHY is this configurable under "File Associations" ?
Because you may want to open it in some other application. No, not gimp, but perhaps krusader or something Technically I understand what you are saying, and how it applies to 'clicking' on a file, but cannot see how anybody would want to open the parent directory with another program. Never mind, not important for this case.
Yep, I've done it again: Somehow I have accidently 'file associated' a directory with Konqueror and guess what: "Konqueror cannot handle this type of file."
That is the way it should be. By default, konqueror is the application set to handle directories in kde Thanks for this info. Been difficult to learn all this, but now it is coming together it seems 'obvious'. Your problem must be something else. In your malfunctioning .kde, what do you have in the directory share/services? I had a look. I have: nsplugin.desktop I know nothing about this, and almost did some damage because when I hovered the mouse pointer over it, a tag came up saying that it was a configuration file. Since most(?) configuration files are text files under Linux I tried to open it - but luckily for me I got a warning!!! Or alternatively, do you happen to have a file called index.html in the directory you tried browsing to? No, no index.
I'd appreciate any clues as I am getting fed up with all of these 'wonderful options' which involve spending years of study (nothing better to do) to control. If the world goes over to Linux then every technical student at the universities will have to study Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Linux.
Why not? They have to study windows now. Yes that is true. But the study of Windows is rather superficial, don't you think? Computers that are used for more than toys are necessarily complex and require learning. Please don't say windows doesn't, because it is a blatant lie. More money is spent on windows classes than some countries spend on electricity I am serious about this move to Linux, but there is an awful lot to learn. And it is true that when I 'get there' I will know a lot more about systems than I would ever have learnt under M$ (where everything is hidden and even more bloody frustrating).
Great match currently going on between Federer and Roddick. Hard to choose sides. Regards, Colin