Bug 234456

Summary:	Default application for file type looks for menu entry to find it
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Emil Beli <beli0135>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Emil Beli 2010-04-15 17:24:38 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

Problem:
Installed SwiftFox which registered as 'Firefox' in KDE menu, with it's path.  *.html is registered to firefox and every time I try to open HTML file, it reported error that Swiftfox could not be found.

I went to the personal settings -> advanced -> default apps, but there, firefox was registered. I tried to change but nothing happened.

Right click on html to change default app, firefox was registered, if I changed to Konqueror, it opened with Konqueror. Putting back to firefox, error repeated.

Error was resolved by editing MENU, firefox shortcut, which had path to swiftfox there. I changed it to /usr/bin/firefox and suddenly everything started to work as before.

BUG: KDE should not rely on menu shortcuts to run application.

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-10 12:40:03 UTC

It sounds like the installation fills wrong path for the swiftfox binray in the .desktop file,  or the swiftfox binary is not installed within your $PATH. It should be a packaging issue.