Bug 60566

Summary:	konqueror file associations forgotten
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Nathaniel Gray <n8gray>
Component:	kcm_filetypes	Assignee:	Marie Loise Nolden <nolden>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nicolasg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Nathaniel Gray 2003-07-01 07:45:47 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

I don't know how many times I've told Konqueror to use acroread for pdf files but every few days or weeks the association is forgotten.  Acroread just vanishes from the "Applications Preference Order" menu.  At the moment I don't know how to trigger the problem, I just know that it's happened to me *many*, *many* times.

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2003-07-08 23:29:52 UTC

i wonder if this is a mandrake menu bug... do you use the mandrake menus setup or 
the standard KDE menu? is there any particular time when the problem shows up, 
such as after a reboot?

Comment 2 Joe Button 2005-02-01 18:24:37 UTC

Same as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92134 ?

Comment 3 Nicolas Goutte 2005-05-20 16:57:28 UTC

Could the people having these problems see if the directories in ~/.kde (or the corresponding directory defined by $KDEDIR) is writable?

Also search in this $KDEDIR/share/mimelnk directory (and its subdirectories) a .desktop file created for the mime type. May be the problem is what is in this .desktop file.

So for the mime type application/pdf for a PDF file, the file created must be $KDEDIR/share/mimelnk/application/pdf.desktop

Have a nice day!

Comment 4 Nicolas Goutte 2005-05-20 17:03:24 UTC

On second thought, this looks very much like bug #70533. It is described there as Mandrake specific problem and was closed as RESOLVED/INVALID.

As this bug is older but also for KDE 3.1.x of Mandrake, I am going to close it as duplicate.

(You can look at bug #70533; there is a trick how to keep the associations.)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70533 ***