| Summary: | Provide a way to override embedded viewing | ||
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| Product: | TDE | Reporter: | Darrell <darrella> |
| Component: | other (any) | Assignee: | Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | bugwatch, darrella, trin |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Version: | R14.0.x [Trinity] | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Compiler Version: | TDE Version String: | ||
| Application Version: | Application Name: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 2969 | ||
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Description
Darrell
2011-12-26 14:03:35 CST
Follow on from the tde-dev post. kcontrol already provides "File Associations" which allows a fairly convenient way to Add (new) or modify the General/Embedding (of existing) file extensions. It works fairly well. The per-type can also be accessed through konqueror --file-management via a rt-click and choose of properties and clicking the wrench icon to access the same kcontrol General/Embedding interface. I think the problem for the defaults, if not set to Embedding -- then what app to choose as default. E.g., for text, do we choose kate or kwrite or even kedit (depending on what portions of TDE are installed)? I'm not opposed to tweaks and changing defaults that make sense, but coming up with a list would be a good start. At least then we can weight in with a yay, nay vote on each. The only curious one I can think of off-hand is the handling of shell script files application/x-shellscript (which doesn't default to Embedding for some strange reason, but should default to katepart) Here's to hope a kick of a 12-year old bug spurs some thought. The first element I am opposed is the presumption of embedding too many file extensions. For example, when I select an archived file I want a separate archiver to launch. Perhaps the solution is to use a file manager that is a file manager rather than a "kitchen sink." With respect to file extensions working "fairly well," yes, sort of, but TDE does not recognize the user's mimeapps.list file. This is confusing for a person who uses different desktop environments. All other DEs recognize mimeapps.list, even KDE. TDE is the only DE in the house network that does not. One of my reality checks when returning to TDE is this file association mess. After years of using DEs that use mimeapps.list, I was and remain frustrated that a simple double-click does not launch the tools I have grown accustomed the past many years, let alone that they all tend to open embedded. The way TDE associates file extensions is arbitrary and makes sense for a time way back when there were no standards. For example, who decided noatun should be the default media player? That is the simplicity of mimeapps.list -- configure once and the file associations travel everywhere to all DEs -- except TDE. Even if TDE was updated to support mimeapps.list, which conceptually seems to be a minor change, there remains the presumption of launching everything embedded. There really needs to be a single check box configuration to toggle all embedded viewing to separate viewers. TCC supports this but the user has to waddle through every extension to change the default behavior. Nonetheless, thanks for the little bit of cheering! As far as TDE being the only DE that doesn't, could this be a lingering issue with Slavek's K/T rename campaign? I could see how that could be a detail buried for years that nobody notices. I love my "kitchen sink"! KDE3/TDE konqueror is the best file manager every written - KDE4 screwed-the-pooch with the +/- selection icons for single-click support rather than simply clicking to the right of the filename. Plasma still hasn't figured out how to make konqueror open up looking the same as you told it too (but has gotten much better) We need all the cheering we can get. No, you ready to go on another K/T rebranding of .svg files again? I'm sure we can find a few more to play with... |