[kdepim-users] Kontact does not remember pdf assignment

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2014-10-14, 12:08:57, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2014, 11:59:05 schrieb Kevin Krammer:

> > It needs to be another KDE program so we can check if it is something
> > KMail
> > does wrong or if the setting used by the core infrastructure is.
> > 
> > E.g.
> > 
> > kioclient exec /path/to/some/pdf
> 
> I do get this error message:
> 
> "Der Befehl lässt sich nicht ausführen. Die Datei oder der Ordner
> *file:///path/to/some/pdf* existiert nicht."
> 
> The command is not executable. File or directory file:///path/to/some/pdf is
> inexistant.

That looks like you did not point it to an actual PDF file.
Try

kioclient exec http://epa.org.kw/Portals/0/sample.pdf

if you don't have any local PDF file around.

> > Given our output of the ktraderclient command I'd say the latter.
> > 
> > If you run
> > kcmshell4 filetypes
> > 
> > does it list the program you want for application/pdf?
> 
> Yes, it does.
> 
> > Is it the top of the list?
> 
> No, it was not. But it didnt change anything to put it at the top. As well
> not after a relaunch of Kontact.

check for a file

$HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Then change the association using the kcmshell4 command above.
Did the file change?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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