On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:39, charlie derr wrote: > <snippage> > > >> I'm thinking now that > >> the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does > >> that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop) > >> > >> ~c > > > > It seems strange to me that if you use KDE you'd even have totem. > > I don't "only" use KDE, I have a lot of other stuff installed (I almost > never login directly to gnome, but sometimes I'll use openbox instead of > KDE (especially when my main purpose is to run vmware to get at a virtual > machine)). So I'm not at all surprised that totem is there (it works well > for a surprising number of things, but not quite everything it thinks it > ought to work for). > > > Yes, > > KDE holds file associations in the control center, but Iceweasel handles > > them too. You need to tell Iceweasel how to handle the file. Edit -> > > Preferences, Content tab, Manage button. > > I don't know if there's a bug here or not, but I can't figure out how to > actually add a new file association with that interface (modify and delete > seem to be the only options available). Probably there's some preferences > file (xml?) somewhere that could be edited directly in my .mozilla/firefox > directory to fix this. But it does seem that there ought to be a GUI > option for adding a new file association. In poking around, I see a > pluginreg.dat file that looks like it's probably the ticket, but at the top > there's a warning not to edit it, as it's a generated file. Anyone got any > clues on this? > > > If you have mplayer, you can dump totem because mplayer can play > > anything that totem can. You might want to look into kaffeine as well. > > That is a popular media player for KDE, as well as kmplayer, which is a > > kde front-end to mplayer. > > Yeah, I installed kmplayer, but konqueror won't even get the www.sirius.com > homepage to load properly (perhaps because of flash?).
Hi. I've just been to the homepage from FC2 with Konqueror (Debians on the other machine), and the page has loaded ok. I don't have Kmplayer installed, but accessing the page using Firefox, and signing up for the freebie 3 day trial I'm receiving some music. I'm on dialup so it keeps dropping out (lack of bandwidth) , but I'm hearing the sounds. The only Internet radio I can receive using Konqueror is from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 using the realplayer plugin. > > > Oh, the choices...how does one know which app is best for each task? > > Recommendations from others (including myself) are only so good. The > > best method is to try for yourself and pick your favorite. > > Yeah, thanks very much for the suggestions. I'm still a little baffled > about how much of a grip totem seems to have on my media files. In the KDE > control center I've modified the file associations so that mplayer is at > the top of the list of applications for opening .asx files, and yet > iceweasel still continues to try to use totem. Personally, and I mean personally I'd get rid of Totem, and use Mplayer. You need to have the w32codecs package installed for it as well, but it seems to work ok. > > thanks again, > ~c > > > Joe Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
