Dolphin tries to open odt files in Firefox
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I have had this very annoying problem for a couple of weeks now. If I double-click on an odt (or any open document type) file in Dolphin, it tries to open it in Firefox instead of LibreOffice.
If I right-click on the file, and go to "Open With", LibreOffice is at the top of the list, and the files also open correctly by double-clicking in Konqueror. I don't think this is a personal settings problem, because I get the same behaviour if I log in as root. I'm using Dolphin 2.0, KDE 4.8.0 and OpenSuse 11.4. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help with this. |
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Change the file association from:
System Settings -> File Associations
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Also, it may help to run: kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental - in case it is a badly cached value.
Also, check the "Preferred applications" in System Settings to ensure you haven't overridden things to use Firefox in certain cases.
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manasij and bcooksley, thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately neither worked.
System Settings -> File Associations shows LibreOffice at the top of the list, same as "Open With ...", also in "Properties". kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental looks a little more promising - at least there are a heap of error messages. @bcooksley: I assume you mean "Default Applications" because I couldn't find "Preferred applications". I couldn't find anything strange in there. Here is the output from kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental:
Any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks again. |
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The kbuildsycoca4 command output is not indicative of any issues - and can be ignored.
I suspect Dolphin is possibly classifying the ODT files as Zip files. If you right click on them, is Ark offered as a possible option for opening the file?
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@bcooksley: Aha! Now we're getting somewhere.
 Yes, Ark is listed. Also the "Extract" sub-menu is activate for .od* files. I couldn't find any settings in either Dolphin or System Settings that appear relevant though. How should I proceed? |
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Can you please open Konsole, and run "kmimetypefinder <path to odt file>" and post the output here?
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@ bcooksley
Thanks again for your support. I tried kmimetypefinder on an odt and an ods file, since both are exhibiting the same behaviour. Here is the output: kmimetypefinder "TPF progress test (phonic unit3).odt" application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text (accuracy 100) kmimetypefinder "Pretest Database.ods" application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet (accuracy 100) Does that help? |
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Okay, now try running "keditfiletype application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" is OpenOffice at the top of that preferences list?
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Actually LibreOffice Writer is at the top, rather than OpenOffice. Firefox is at the bottom of the list. The complete list is: I keep forgetting to ask - should I be running these commands as root or normal user, since, as mentioned in my first post, I get the same behaviour if I log in as root. |
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For what it's worth, I can reproduce this with .svg files - they should open in Inkscape but instead open in Firefox. Weird. (Same problem with e.g. kde-open, so probably not a Dolphin issue.)
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If you remove Firefox from the list of associated applications for odt files, does that have any impact?
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@Hans: Nice to have company
 You're right - od* files also open in Firefox using kde-open. I just checked and if I drop an odt file into a folderview folder and open it from the desktop, it also opens in firefox. However, Konqueror opens them correctly. So what do Dolphin, kde-open and folderview folders have in common that Konqueror doesn't have? Or vice versa? @bcooksley: removing firefox from the list has no effect, so it seems that Dolphin (kde-open etc.) are ignoring this list for some reason. |
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Interesting - as Dolphin and Konqueror both use the same underlying file viewer component.
Can you please enable all debug areas, then use kde-open to open the ODT file?
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Well, Konqueror has the option to show the file embedded, so I guess the underlying code is slightly different?
I can try to investigate further when I get back later.
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