Re: Opening unknown filetypes from Firefox: KDE users please confirm


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Opening unknown filetypes from Firefox: KDE users please confirm
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:27 PM
2008/12/8 Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Well, guess I missed your point then.
However,if I understand what your saying correctly,
the only thing I've ever
seen for a file that wouldn't open automatically
is an "open with"
dialog that prety much list all the available programs
grouped by menu items as
seen in either gnome or kde menus.

Thank you, that is what I wanted to know. Do you get that
in Kubuntu,
in Ubuntu with Gnome, and/or in Ubuntu with KDE?

With Ubuntu and kde installed. All I use now. Have found that Kubuntu is just a little more trouble to use than Ubuntu and I know that shouldn't be. I also found out that the ubuntu list is more friendlier and more helpful than the Kubuntu list although I suspect many help on both lists.

In Kubuntu, I am not getting the Open With dialog. I am
getting the
File Chooser.

Now I understand but don't know what file chooser is. Never seen it. No matter though.
So, what exactly do you mean by a "file
chooser"? That's what I can't get my mind
around.

The File Chooser is the name of the dialog that lets one
save a file
in a location of his choice. It is the same dialog that
lets one
choose a file to open. Click File -> Open File and you
will get the
file chooser.

In Kubuntu when Firefox encounters a new file type, the
user is
correctly presented with the choice to either open the file
with an
application of his choice, or to save the file. If the user
selects
Open With he should get the operating system's Open
With dialog (the
same dialog that the user gets when right clicking on a
local file and
choosing Open With). If the user selects Save As he should
get the
File Chooser. In my install (and every Kubuntu install that
I've
bothered checking the issue on) the user gets the File
Chooser no
matter _which_ option he chooses (Open With or Save As).

Sounds like the file download dialog when you download something from internet. If so, I now know what your talking about and I only get that when downloading files. See my first comment above on why I choose Ubuntu over Kubuntu. You may have better luck with Ubuntu. Derek is a Kubuntu user I think or a least kde user. Did he offer anything? I haven't followed this thread closely.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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