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

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 11 March 2011 22:06:20 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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.

That was the point I was trying to make but obviously not in a very clear way 
;-)

> 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.

And like e.g. Choqok AND Akregator which let's you choose to use a non-
standard browser.

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

It should give you the choice to open embedded or external.

-- 
Best regards / med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen

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