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

JanH
JanH over 15 years ago

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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    JanH over 15 years ago
    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for filing this. We already had setup Konqueror such that it will fire acroread for pdf documents. This does work for "native" konqueror sessions: double clicking a pdf-document indeed does start acroread. But within a cadence session it doesn't seem to work this way, only konqueror gets started, using the builtin pdf viewer.

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to not be dependant upon your underlying OS & window manager but to have full control about your third party applications from within the cadence environment? It probably isn't as easy as that but I would personally prefer to have this configured (via a .cdsenv entry for example).

    Thanks for your clarification.

    Have a nice day (in the states if I'm not mistaken?).


    With kind regards,

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    Jan Hovius
    Senior EDA Engineer

    SiTel Semiconductor BV, "Design Centre Hengelo"
    Lansinkesweg 4, 7553 AE Hengelo, The Netherlands


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    JanH over 15 years ago
    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for filing this. We already had setup Konqueror such that it will fire acroread for pdf documents. This does work for "native" konqueror sessions: double clicking a pdf-document indeed does start acroread. But within a cadence session it doesn't seem to work this way, only konqueror gets started, using the builtin pdf viewer.

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to not be dependant upon your underlying OS & window manager but to have full control about your third party applications from within the cadence environment? It probably isn't as easy as that but I would personally prefer to have this configured (via a .cdsenv entry for example).

    Thanks for your clarification.

    Have a nice day (in the states if I'm not mistaken?).


    With kind regards,

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Jan Hovius
    Senior EDA Engineer

    SiTel Semiconductor BV, "Design Centre Hengelo"
    Lansinkesweg 4, 7553 AE Hengelo, The Netherlands


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