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