On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:00 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:

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Hi all,

Here's the problem I am trying to tackle.

I have a presentation in Open Office (.odp) that uses external handlers to play multimedia. For instance, it plays movies (.mov, .avi, .mpg) directly, or, in some instances, it calls scripts (a Ruby script, for instance) to call them. Now, under KDE3.5 things worked as defined in Konqueror. Under KDE4, no such luck.

For instance, that Ruby script would execute fine out of a Konqueror window but it just fails to execute out of the ODP. Instead, an editor opens that shows me the content of the script. The same with the movie files - they fail to open the same way; if you are lucky, a Konqueror plugin will play them - but I want a standalone application of my choosing.

How do I fix that? Any ideas?

I had the same thing with a shell script. It was executable. But clicking on it opened it in an editor. When I added

       #!/bin/sh

to the start, it once again ran when clicked. How does the Ruby script look on the very first line?

If I could only figure out why the script does not default to run in the folder it was in and that you clicked on, I would be happier. Remember, it is not a .desktop file with settings.

-- Roger Oberholtzer

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Thanks, Roger, that was a good thought... But those scripts begin with: #!/usr/bin/ruby which seems about right to me... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:

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Hi all,

Here's the problem I am trying to tackle.

I have a presentation in Open Office (.odp) that uses external handlers to play multimedia. For instance, it plays movies (.mov, .avi, .mpg) directly, or, in some instances, it calls scripts (a Ruby script, for instance) to call them. Now, under KDE3.5 things worked as defined in Konqueror. Under KDE4, no such luck.

For instance, that Ruby script would execute fine out of a Konqueror window but it just fails to execute out of the ODP. Instead, an editor opens that shows me the content of the script. The same with the movie files - they fail to open the same way; if you are lucky, a Konqueror plugin will play them - but I want a standalone application of my choosing.

How do I fix that? Any ideas?

Thanks.

Boris.

Boris,

Have you thought about trying KDE 4.2, or even 4.3beta?

I assume you know 4.1 was an early adapters release, so there is not much of a reason to still be using it imho.

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Greg, I upgraded to KDE 4.2 from the OpenSuSE's repository. Overall performance seems noticeably better; unfortunately, this particular problem has not been resolved. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org