[kopete] opening links in external apps.

Dear visitor, welcome to KDE-Forum.org. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains in detail how this page works. To use all features of this page, you should consider registering. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.

Emanon

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, May 11th 2005, 10:06am

[kopete] opening links in external apps.

Every now and then I get links sent to me through Kopete (and Kmail). I would like to just click them and have Firefox kick in and bring me there.

Instead it seems, for reasons unimaginable to me, that it downloads the page to a local cache and then lets me view it:
file:///tmp/kdecache-user/krun/4890.0.article.pl

Is there anything I can to stop this nonsence and get KDE or Kopete to handle URL's properly systemwide?

(please dont tell me to use konqueror for surfing)

Go to the top of the page

anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Wednesday, May 11th 2005, 3:54pm

Very likely the command for firefox is missing the %u parameter.

Either in the file associaton for text/html or the external browser command, what ever you are using.

Unfornately some distributors seem to ship broken .desktop files for Firefox (missing %u or %U in the Exec line)

Cheers,
_

Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

Go to the top of the page

Emanon

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, May 11th 2005, 5:48pm

Do you know how I can fix this? I'm a bit new to this system (and linux in general). I'm running a Mandrake/KDE kombo through this live cd distribution:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/

Thanks!

Go to the top of the page

anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Thursday, May 12th 2005, 4:12pm

External browser is in control center->KDE components->component chooser

File association would be in control center->KDE components->file association

Depending on your version of KDE the first one might not be there, but if it is it makes that the preferable solution

Cheers,
_

Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

Go to the top of the page

Emanon

Beginner

Posts: 3

Thursday, May 12th 2005, 11:29pm

I tried to make the "Component Chooser" pass the %u parameter to firefox, but it wouldn't behave. So I tried making a simple bash-script that would start firefox with the %u, but Component Chooser didn't like that much either.

Then I tried to alter the link in the KDE Menu, and make that pass the %u, and trick the component chooser to use that link.

I even tried to make a bash script use the -remote command to pass firefox an URL. It worked, but i couldn't get the new-tab attribute to qork properly. Even if I did, im not sure how to make the script catch the URL I'm clicking and pass it to the -remote(URL) part...

How do I manage the file extension thingy? There seemed to be no settings there for http or www or whatever. What am I looking for?

Go to the top of the page

anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Friday, May 13th 2005, 11:36am

Quoted

Originally posted by Emanon
I even tried to make a bash script use the -remote command to pass firefox an URL. It worked, but i couldn't get the new-tab attribute to qork properly. Even if I did, im not sure how to make the script catch the URL I'm clicking and pass it to the -remote(URL) part...

The %u is replaced with the URL.
If you have a script, the parameter corresponding to the position of the %us will be the URL

Quoted

How do I manage the file extension thingy? There seemed to be no settings there for http or www or whatever. What am I looking for?

text/html

That's why I said that the external browser setting is preferable, as it covers the protocol

Cheers,
_

Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

Go to the top of the page