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Where to define file association for your documents in ADE-XL environment?

JanH

Hi,

 Well, the subject says it all: We have added a pdf document to a design's ade-xl view (section "documents") but when we try to open it (double clicking or RMB->Open) the KDE file browser "konqueror" opens and not acroread!

 I've been looking for solutions in both worlds: KDE and this community but can't find it. I would have expected this to be something trivial and well documented setup feature but it apparently isn't. 

 Any advise would be welcome.

 

Thanks,

 

Jan.

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  • Hi Jan,

    The way this is supposed to work is for QT to use a service to request the window manager to open the file. With KDE, this is controlled via Konqueror. In theory you should be able to alter Konqueror's settings to get it to launch acroread; I can do this for files navigated in Konqueror by using Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations and then searching for pdf and changing it to launch Adobe Acroread first. However, the documents double clicked in ADE XL seem to be seen as "embedded" content, and I can't figure out how to make it launch acroread. If I set the Embedded tab to tell it to launch in a separate viewer, it still uses Konqueror to do it.

    I'll create a service request for you, and take this up with R&D.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

     

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  • Hi Jan,

    The way this is supposed to work is for QT to use a service to request the window manager to open the file. With KDE, this is controlled via Konqueror. In theory you should be able to alter Konqueror's settings to get it to launch acroread; I can do this for files navigated in Konqueror by using Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations and then searching for pdf and changing it to launch Adobe Acroread first. However, the documents double clicked in ADE XL seem to be seen as "embedded" content, and I can't figure out how to make it launch acroread. If I set the Embedded tab to tell it to launch in a separate viewer, it still uses Konqueror to do it.

    I'll create a service request for you, and take this up with R&D.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

     

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