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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 11 March 2011, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> 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.

This is not true. You are confusing the desktop-wide (!!!) configuration 
of file associations with Konqueror-specific settings. The file 
associations are not Konqueror-specific even though you can open the 
corresponding configuration dialog directly from Konqueror. The 
associations apply to all KDE applications (and all other applications 
that honor the corresponding freedesktop.org standard), e.g. to Dolphin, 
KMail, Ark, Konqueror, and, obviously, also to Akregator.

I, personally, hate applications like Thunderbird which think they need 
to have their own file associations even though Windows, KDE, Gnome and 
certainly also Mac OS X provide system-wide file associations.

OTOH, I agree that Akregator probably shouldn't open anything but 
text/html embedded.


Regards,
Ingo
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