kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:48:04 -0500: > Now for some reason, firefox remembers only one application per file > extension. For example, let's say, it knows to open pdf files in xpdf. > Now if I want to change it to acroread, I have to go through the > filepicker dialog, which involves going through /usr/bin directory. The > moment you enter /usr/bin, it tries to load all the files in the > /usr/bin directory and the machine is not responsive for quite a bit of > time (say 30 seconds). This kind of thing does not happen in konqueror > where it can remember multiple applications for the same file extension. > I think it pretty impressive that the konqueror guys got it right.
Odd. I have the opposite scenario. I have selected multiple apps in firefox (dunno whether I did it via ~/.mailcap and ~/.mime.types, or via something within firefox -- a cursory search doesn't tell me how I did it), and I've got a choice of "open with" (with the apps I have preselected, or a filepicker to pick another app), or "save to disk". Now, I have also gotten konq to give me multiple apps for differnt filetypes (and gee, wasn't that a tedious process? I hate GUIs that can't have config files written by hand), yet it pops up a redundant dialog box that asks me again what to run, but doesn't give me the choice of what to run (there's a button, clicking it selects the app written on the button face, but nothing I have done yet lets me change what the button says), picking only the first choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
