Bug 61885 - pop up asking for filter when I point to office document in konqueror
Summary: pop up asking for filter when I point to office document in konqueror
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kword
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Zander
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Reported: 2003-07-31 10:09 UTC by Jorge Adriano
Modified: 2003-11-30 17:47 UTC (History)
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Description Jorge Adriano 2003-07-31 10:09:21 UTC
Version:           1.2.91 (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB

After installing koffice, whenever I point to a (non koffice) office document (pps for instance)  in konqueror, I get a pop up asking me to select a filter. It is quite annoying, besides I select the filter and it does nothing, if I point again it asks for it again.

I thought it could be a "preview" thing so I disabled "other office files" preview, I even tried to disable the previews globaly, it stays the same though.
Comment 1 Adrian Schroeter 2003-07-31 11:05:02 UTC
there exists no beta2 rpms from suse. 
 
yes, I promise there will be some for beta3 
Comment 2 Frauke Oster 2003-07-31 11:09:30 UTC
Have you wv2 installed? You need this for properly working filters. Maybe this lib is 
missing.  
 
Comment 3 Jorge Adriano 2003-07-31 12:25:25 UTC
No SuSE Rpms for 1.3 beta2? Isn't 1.2.91 = 1.3 beta2? 
I got them from: 
ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/kde/unstable/koffice-1.2.91/contrib/SuSE/8.2/i586 
Comment 4 Jorge Adriano 2003-07-31 12:29:48 UTC
I don't think I have wv2 installed. I couldn't find not such thing in SuSE CDs either. 
If wv2 is needed then it should be listed as a dependency in the Rpms :-/ 
 
Anyway I still don't understand what are the filters needed for in this situation. 
Why should I need any filters at all when I place my cursor over a doc or pps? To show meta 
info? Shouldn't that go away by disabling preview previews for those kind of files? 
Comment 5 Nicolas Goutte 2003-09-12 13:57:36 UTC
I can confirm the bug, as it happened to me yesterday with MS Word files (KDE 
post-3.1.3; KOffice CVS HEAD 2003-09-11; Wv2 not installed.)  
 
Comment 6 Nicolas Goutte 2003-09-12 14:00:33 UTC
The problem is that when you point to a file Konqy still wants to make a  
thumbnail out of it. (You can disable what you want, it will not care about  
it.)  
Comment 7 Dik Takken 2003-11-24 16:03:06 UTC
I have this problem with KDE 3.1.4, KOffice 1.2.94. When you enter a directory with 20 MS Word documents in it, KDE will popup 20 filter dialogs. You can disable this by disabeling thumbnails. 

When these thumbnails are disabled, the popup can still appear when KDE generates a file tip with preview when you hover your mousepointer over a office-like file. You can disable this as well by configuring Konqueror not to show previews in file tips.
Comment 8 Nicolas Goutte 2003-11-30 17:47:41 UTC
Subject: koffice/tools/thumbnail

CVS commit by goutte: 

Disable generation of the "other office" thumbnails.

The reasons are between many problems:
- Konqueror tries to generate every thumbnail at the same time, which for
  filters is critical, as it can use too much computer-power.
- Konqueror tries and re-tries to have a thumbnail, even if the filter has
  failed.
- The KOffice filters have not a "batch mode" yet, so dialogs can show up.
- The thumbnail generation might trigger bugs in the filters, which
  might end to any possible problems. (And Konquy tries then again...)
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(Possibily other bugs, including not reported ones.)


  M +2 -1      Makefile.am   1.6


--- koffice/tools/thumbnail/Makefile.am  #1.5:1.6
@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@
 kofficethumbnail_la_LDFLAGS = $(all_libraries) -module $(KDE_PLUGIN)
 
-kde_services_DATA = clipartthumbnail.desktop kofficethumbnail.desktop otherofficethumbnail.desktop
+# otherofficethumbnail.desktop is currently not installed, as it gives too many problems
+kde_services_DATA = clipartthumbnail.desktop kofficethumbnail.desktop