On Thursday 30 May 2002 14:31, Chris Spencer wrote: > Hello, > > Is there some reason why file associations don't seem to work in KDE > 3.01? Take mp3 files for example. If I browse to a directory and click > on an mp3 the player that KDE uses is the "embedded" mp3 player > (Kaboodle?). I would like to change this so that it uses XMMS. So I > changed the associations for all mp3 filetypes in KDE Control Center so > that it would use XMMS instead. And guess what? It still uses the > embedded player. Another example is for .mpg files. Even though Xmovie > is set as the primary player they always play in the embedded player, > which sucks because it always ends up crashing my Konqueror. > > If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks... > > -Chris
In KDE Control Centre | File Browsing | File Associations, select the file type and then click the Embedding tab - Show file in separate viewer - add your preferred application. You can also do this by right-clicking a file in konqueror and choosing "Edit file type". -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 511MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 2.2.2 Qt: 2.3.1 up 18 hours 56 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
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