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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: User Settings issues
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-01-31 21:02:37
Message-ID: 401C17ED.1070105 () acm ! org
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praveen kandikuppa wrote:
> Hi,
>      I wanted to point out a suggestion regarding the
> current design of "file associations". Usually an
> application handles a set of mimetypes, hence one 
> logical place to set the preferred application<->mime
> type would be application wise. For eg. I would like
> kplayer to handle all the video types it can handle
> and juk to handle all the audio types it can handle.
> but this is difficult to accomplish. Currently you
> have to search for all the video mime types and for
> each one put kplayer to be the preferred app. Is there
> some way the mime types can be set on a per
> application basis. This would seem to be a good 
> option. An application can have some sort of settings
> page to accomplish this and global support in the libs
> would be very good in my opinion. 
>           Another issue is settings do not get
> properly updated between kde versions. When migrating
> from kde 3.1 to 3.2 kicker panel icon  arrangement was
> messed up. I had a quick launch panel for which the
> settings were lost. Some menu entries didn't have
> icons. I had an issues with settings of some other
> applications. Could this be a packaging issue or has
> somebody else faced these problems. Can't all this be
> done transparently?. 
>          What do you think of this? Should i submit a
> bug report for this.

I would suggest that you discuss this on:

KDE Usability Project <kde-usability@kde.org>

Which I am CCing.

There currently is a way to do what you want but it is not that simple.

If you track down the actual 'desktop' file for the application (in the 
menu) and open it with RMB "Properties", under the "Application" tab, you 
can add MIME types directly to the application.

So, it appears that what needs to be fixed is that there needs to be some 
way to do this without having to track down the 'desktop' file.

My suggestion is that you should be able to RMB the application in KMenu 
and the widget would appear just as if you had tracked down the 'desktop' 
file and used RMB Properties to open the widget.  There is a slight 
disadvantage here that this would only affect the options for that user, 
but that is the way the KDE works.  The lack of a GUI to set global options 
  and menu configuration is another issue.

alternatively, you might have to open the menu in a KCM module and LMB the 
item that you wanted to configure -- like "Add => Application Button" to 
the panel works.

--
JRT
 
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