On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 03:48 -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 19:14 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday 27 January 2011 05:48:39 pm John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:12 -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > > > > I'm feeling really stupid.  I have an installation of Trinity on
> > > > > Squeeze where the user uses Icedove for email.  For some reason, it
> > > > > wants to open PDF files in GIMP.  I see the same thing in other Gnome
> > > > > applications like Evolution.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've gone to Icedove preferences and tried to change the application
> > > > > type and clicking on other . . . does not produce a dialog box to
> > > > > select an application (like KPDF or acroread).  I installed
> > > > > kgtk-config-icedove but that did not help.  I even installed Nautilus
> > > > > and tried setting the application association there.  That at least
> > > > > presented KPDF as an option in Evolution but not in Icedove.  I
> > > > > installed gconf-editor but that does not seem to address application
> > > > > associations.
> > snip
> > 
> > Trinity on Squeeze, Icedove brings up the dialog box for other applications here.
> > 'edit>preferences>attachments>Portable Document Format '
> > 
> > The default is 'always ask, but the drop down list has Gimp, evince & other. The 
> > other bring up the selection box for navigating to the app.
> > 
> > it seems like something is missing or mis-configured.
> > 
> > FYI, Gnome Desktop might not work since Icedove is not a Gnome app, 
> > "The goal of Icedove is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application
> >  using the XUL user interface language."
> > 
> Thanks.  At least I know it's not a Trinity issue now.  I'll have to
> figure out what is missing that I do not get the selection box.  I was
> hoping kgtk-config-icedove would make it use the KDE information and
> selection box but it is still pulling the Gnome one.  Thanks again -
> John
<snip>
Hmm . . . just did an apt-get --reinstall intall icedove.  I noticed it
pulls in desktop-file-utils so I reinstalled that.  I started Icedove,
went to properties / applications chose other and I got a KDE dialog!
I'm guessing it was not the reinstallation but the reboot after
installing kgtk-config-icedove.  I did make sure Icedove had been
restart using the wrapper but I had not restarted my Trinity session.  I
any event, I'm happy, the user is happy, and it's working.  Thanks again
- John