[kdepim-users] Re: Kontact-embedded okular and pdf printing/saving: howto?

[Thomas Olsen]

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 22:23:30 Pascal Hasko Bernhard wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 09 März 2011, 07:07:26 schrieb Thomas Olsen:
> > On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21:15:34 Pascal Hasko Bernhard wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag 08 März 2011, 06:46:00 schrieb Johannes Graumann:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > >  I posted this a long while back (Jul 07, 2010), but received no
> > > >  answer and
> > > > 
> > > > just re-run into the issue - so I repost:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I extensively use Akregator in Kontact to track scientific literature
> > > > and this often leads me to PDFs that are then opened in a
> > > > Kontact/Akregator embedded Okular. So nice so good. I have however
> > > > been unable to figure out how to save or print a PDF from inside the
> > > > embedded Okular - can anybody give me a hint on how to achieve that?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This is Kontact Version 4.4.7 on debian testing.

> > > having Akregator (which I like too) open PDF documents externally with
> > > Okular as a stand-alone application not integrated into Kontact is not
> > > an option for you? There would be less of a problem with printing and
> > > keyboard shortcuts. You would have to change the default program for
> > > viewing PDFs in
> > > "Systemsettings".
> > 
> > Wouldn't changing it in System Settings also prevent Konqueror from
> > embedding  Okular? I'd like PDF's to open externally in Okular when
> > opened from Kontact/Akregator both due to screen space limitation and
> > missing menu entries and shortcuts, but when opened from Konqueror I
> > mostly prefer it to open embedded.
> 
> You're right. In "Systemsettings" you can set the program associated with
> all kinds of file types, even ones you didn't know existed in the first
> place. It takes a while to configure it, but it changes the association
> across programs and desktop environments. My Debian is running on Gnome
> and it works there too. I'm not sure if you can exclude specific programs
> from the file associations set up here, as you would like to do. I guess
> you have to do some research, if you can tell Konqueror to open PDFs
> embedded, ignoring the global configuration. You'd probably have to do
> this somewhere in Konqueror.

To my knowledge this is not possible. The Right Thing (TM), would be if 
Akregator had a context menu from which you select to open a link with one of 
the programs associated with the mimetype of the link - or with another 
program of your choosing. Like you can in Konqueror.
The problem is that I don't think Akregator has a dedicated maintainer.
I hope my broken English made any sense ;-)

-- 
Best regards / med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen

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