-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 15:39, charlie derr wrote: > <snippage> > >>> I'm thinking now that >>> the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does >>> that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop) >>> >>> ~c >>> >>> >> >> It seems strange to me that if you use KDE you'd even have totem. > > I don't "only" use KDE, I have a lot of other stuff installed (I almost > never login directly to gnome, but sometimes I'll use openbox instead of > KDE (especially when my main purpose is to run vmware to get at a > virtual machine)). So I'm not at all surprised that totem is there (it > works well for a surprising number of things, but not quite everything > it thinks it ought to work for). > > >> Yes, >> KDE holds file associations in the control center, but Iceweasel handles >> them too. You need to tell Iceweasel how to handle the file. Edit -> >> Preferences, Content tab, Manage button. > > I don't know if there's a bug here or not, but I can't figure out how to > actually add a new file association with that interface (modify and > delete seem to be the only options available). Probably there's some
If you figure out how, tell us!!! > preferences file (xml?) somewhere that could be edited directly in my > .mozilla/firefox directory to fix this. But it does seem that there > ought to be a GUI option for adding a new file association. In poking > around, I see a pluginreg.dat file that looks like it's probably the > ticket, but at the top there's a warning not to edit it, as it's a > generated file. Anyone got any clues on this? > >> >> If you have mplayer, you can dump totem because mplayer can play >> anything that totem can. You might want to look into kaffeine as well. >> That is a popular media player for KDE, as well as kmplayer, which is a >> kde front-end to mplayer. > > Yeah, I installed kmplayer, but konqueror won't even get the > www.sirius.com homepage to load properly (perhaps because of flash?). Works for me in Iceweasel with Flash 9 installed > >> >> Oh, the choices...how does one know which app is best for each task? >> Recommendations from others (including myself) are only so good. The >> best method is to try for yourself and pick your favorite. > > Yeah, thanks very much for the suggestions. I'm still a little baffled > about how much of a grip totem seems to have on my media files. In the > KDE control center I've modified the file associations so that mplayer > is at the top of the list of applications for opening .asx files, and > yet iceweasel still continues to try to use totem. Iceweasel/FF has it's own mime control. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF+bVPS9HxQb37XmcRApErAKC10ErLffJ5mjPN+lOyLPIg+2LI1gCg2Rey PeCr0vqyXRBihxP8Tqsx5r0= =wwAs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
