[PC-BSD Testing] Okular is cited in file assoc section of syssettings for PDF but doesn't work

[Kris Moore]

Fabrizio Parrella wrote:
> there are similar issues for OO files and others...
> I believe this is a FF issue that doesn't check the default configuration to see if the file is registered
> 
> Fabry
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jeff 
>   To: testing at lists.pcbsd.org 
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:55 PM
>   Subject: [PC-BSD Testing] Okular is cited in file assoc section of syssettings for PDF but doesn't work
> 
> 
>         Trying to open a PDF file downloaded via "PDF Download" extension in Firefox3 doesn't invoke Okular.  Had to find the binary in /PCBSD/local/kde4/bin/okular and tell the pop-up dialog box to remember the file association.
> 
>         But in system settings, Okular is listed for PDF file types.
>        

The problem here is that FF is a gtk app, and doesn't understand the 
file-types setup by KDE. However, we've managed to make Opera work with 
some KDE file-handler stuff, we should be able to get FF to do it as 
well. I'll take a look into there here soon, probably some js 
preferences we can set to make FF pass file-handling off to kfmclient or 
something.

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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
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