Hello guys,
I'm running stock KDE (3.5.x) on Fedora 8 and I was using (until now) d3lphin. After the recent kdebase4 update d3lphin was deleted. Ok, I now have the real dolphin from kde 4... However:
1- Its default behaviour is single-click. I run my KDE system with "double-click How can I change this?
2- It has its own file-type associations. It won't respect my current KDE file-type associations.
Right, I know dolphin is using its kde4 libraries (not getting the stuff I configure on my KDE3 Control Center) so... is there a KDE4 Control Center? I did a search on the files installed by kdebase4 and I don't see any kcontrol4 :(
I don't want to install the full-blown kde 4.... (I'll wait until 4.1) but I was used to d3lphin and now I can't configure dolphin as I did with d3lphin.
Thanks for any help.
Best regards, Jorge
Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas <at> gmail.com> writes:
1- Its default behaviour is single-click. I run my KDE system with "double-click How can I change this?
Hmmm, this may be a bug. I'm not sure what happened to that setting, I have to investigate.
2- It has its own file-type associations. It won't respect my current KDE file-type associations.
Right, I know dolphin is using its kde4 libraries (not getting the stuff I configure on my KDE3 Control Center) so... is there a KDE4 Control Center? I did a search on the files installed by kdebase4 and I don't see any kcontrol4 :(
You can run "kcmshell4 filetypes" to set file associations. (Yes, this sucks. Setting file associations from within Dolphin is a requested feature, it would also be useful within KDE 4, I'm not sure why this isn't set up. :-( ) By the way, technically, it's actually KDE 3 using "its own file-type associations", KDE 4 is using the shared-mime-info which is also used by GNOME and some other stuff.
Kevin Kofler
On Friday 22 February 2008 02:09:27 pm Kevin Kofler wrote:
You can run "kcmshell4 filetypes" to set file associations. (Yes, this sucks. Setting file associations from within Dolphin is a requested feature, it would also be useful within KDE 4, I'm not sure why this isn't set up. :-( )
Thanks for the tip. Yes, it really sucks being not able to change the file associations within it. We'll see in the future :)
By the way, technically, it's actually KDE 3 using "its own file-type associations", KDE 4 is using the shared-mime-info which is also used by GNOME and some other
Ohhh I didn't know about this shared-mime-info being used by both DE's. That's nice to know..that there's this kind of integration between the DE's.
Thanks Kevin!
All the best, Jorge
Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas <at> gmail.com> writes:
1- Its default behaviour is single-click. I run my KDE system with "double-click How can I change this?
This is the "KDE 4 does not recognize the kde-settings default settings" bug. We use a kiosktool setup and for some reason KDE 4 doesn't support this properly yet (it's one of the items on our hitlist for Fedora 9). So what happens is that if you use the KDE 3 kcontrol to set the selection mode to double click, KConfig sees that SingleClick=false already appears in the system-wide default configuration and refuses to write it out to your ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals file. KDE 4 then does not see the system-wide default configuration and defaults to what is its default, which is SingleClick=true.
To work around this bug, comment out or remove the SingleClick=false line in /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/ and add that line to your ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals file (where ~ stands for your home directory), in the [KDE] section.
I hope this bug will be fixed soon, it can cause other kinds of breakage too.
Kevin Kofler
On Sunday 24 February 2008 10:57:57 pm Kevin Kofler wrote:
To work around this bug, comment out or remove the SingleClick=false line in /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/ and add that line to your ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals file (where ~ stands for your home directory), in the [KDE] section.
Thanks for the explanation Kevin and for the workaround! Right on.
Thanks! Jorge