[kdepim-users] Re: Re-enabling "Open Attachment" dialog in KMail

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Thu Apr 21 19:47:03 BST 2011


On Thursday 21 April 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2011-04-20, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 April 2011, Manolis Papadakis wrote:
> > > I accidentally clicked the "Do not ask again" checkbox on the
> > > save-or-open dialog when opening a pdf attachment in KMail. Now,
> > > all pdf attachments automatically open in an external viewer
> > > when clicked. Is there some way to re-enable the dialog?
> > 
> > Open KMail's configuration file (~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc) in an
> > editor while KMail is *not* running. Look for a line starting with
> > 
> > askSave_application/pdf=
> > 
> > Remove this line, save the changes and then start KMail again.
> 
> Or on a commandline (again while KMail is not running)
> 
> kwriteconfig --file kmailrc --group "Notification Messages" \
> 	--key "askSave_application/pdf" --value ""

I tried this. It does not work. Setting this config key to an empty 
value results in nothing happening when you click on a PDF attachment.

What we'd need is something like --delete (additionally to --value) for 
kwriteconfig.


Regards,
Ingo

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