RE: KDE auto application setting?

Alan: Thanks for this great practical example!

Are you using KDE 4 or Kubuntu?

A) Kubuntu uses Kcontrol for this. Is this missing on your menu?
run kcontrol from terminal:
$ kcontrol

or right click on desktop, choose ¨run application¨
enter "kcontrol" - run program.
or
ALT F2 - type "kcontrol"

Add it to the Kmenu, if you like?


Kubuntu wants users to use the "System Settings" thing on the K Menu.
I'm not sure if this "System Settings" thing is a part of KDE, or something
Kubuntu cooked up.

When we developed the FreakBox for freegeek.org
(our custom distro before embracing the well engineered Ubuntu) we ran into
and fixed a great many such strangenesses in Debian. Kubuntu is doing likewise!


B) KDE 4 (are you using Fedora 9?) file associations are read upon newlogin. Or if you change it on the fly this should happen automagically as soon as FAM notices, but you can also do it manually. Just open a Konsole and execute:

    $ kbuildsycoca
[NOTE: (use grep to find the extensions and associations {as already suggested}):] 
$ grep digiKam ~/.kde/share/config/*
References:  
http://www.kde.org/ 
http://www.fedoraproject.org

And fun to look at: http://www.fedora.org/

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:14:26 -0700
From: phrkonaleash@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: KDE auto application setting?

I doubt it would be in the digikam rc, since it's kde system wide setting... porbably in ksyscoca, but I don't know how to play with that...


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:


On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:45 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> A few days ago I again plugged in my SD card reader with a card from
> my camera. KDE, as always, popped up the box asking what to do with

> it. I chose to open it with digiKam, as usual. But this time I
> clicked the "Always do this..." option. I thought that would be
> great.
>
> It's not.
>
> Now every USB storage device, drive or music player I plug in brings up digiKam.

>
> I'm running Kubuntu with KDE 3.5. I have opened System Settings -->
> General tab --> Notifications --> Storage Media Notifications -->
> Notifications tab --> Medium types list I have found the following

> media types and toggled the Auto Action on digiKam to off, clicking
> Apply after each setting change:
>
> Unmounted Removable Medium
> Unmounted Camera
> Mounted Camera
> Camera

>
> Then I close the System Settings application. Then I plug in my USB
> stick and digiKam starts up again. And I go back in the System
> Settings --> blah, blah, blah and the Auto Action is all SET on

> digiKam again.
>
> So, the GUI doesn't work. Any thoughts on where to go find the rouge
> setting and remove it?
----
don't know for sure but I would guess something like...


grep digikam ~/.kde/share/config/*

should list the file with the setting (but probably list more than 1
file)

Craig




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