Dolphin took over my KDE 3

[Kishore]

On Friday 12 Dec 2008 2:59:12 am Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Kishore wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 Dec 2008 12:01:10 pm Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> After I installed KDE 4.1.3, some things got messed up in KDE 3.  One of
> >> them is that whenever I try to open a folder, a device, or anything else
> >> that would fire-up Konqueror, now brings up Dolphin.  How can I revert
> >> back?
> >>
> >> KDE 3's settings are in ~/.kde and KDE 4's in ~/kde4 so this should not
> >> have happened.
> >
> > Dolphin is really nicer to konqueror. I took a long time to really accept
> > that! I hope you give dolphin some time before you decide to go back to
> > konqueror. Besides, konq really just uses the dolphin part for file
> > management!
>
> The problem is that it's broken in KDE 3.  I get lots of those when
> opening devices:
>
> http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5181/dolphinerrorrh4.png
>
> That's why I want Konqueror as default.
>
> > Anyway, I digress... If you must make the change it is as simple as
> > setting the default application for the "folder" mime type. In system
> > settings-
> >
> >> advanced->file associations, search for "folder" and select
> >> inode/directory
> >
> > and select dolphin as your preference.
>
> There's a misunderstanding here.  I want Konqueror back as default in
> KDE 3, not KDE 4.  In KDE 4 I want Dolphin.  In KDE 3 I want Konqueror
> as it was before.  Dolphin messed up with my KDE 3 install and made
> itself default.
>
> Anyway, I had to click through about 30 places in KDE Control Center to
> remove Dolphin.  I hope next time I start KDE 4 it won't mess it up again

Hmmm... Now that depends on your distribution and how they mix the two 
versions. I would think that as long as they kde3 and kde4 are configured with 
different KDEHOME paths, one will not affect the other.
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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