How to get KDE system WITHOUT Gnome Defaults

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:08:28 +0000, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 17:43, Dave wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:21 pm, David Curry wrote:
> > > Dave wrote:
> > > >Is there any (simple) way to tell FC3 that I want all the default
> > > > application handlers to be the KDE programs, not the Gnome ones? I'm
> > > > sick
> > >
> > > In FC2, Dave, at the logon screen one may choose the type of desktop one
> > > wants to run by clicking on the word "session" at the bottom of the
> > > screen and then choosing the desktop if more than one desktop has been
> > > installed on the system.  After reading your message, I logged off of my
> > > Gnome desktop session, selected KDE desktop session, logged back on to
> > > the system, launched Konqueror, pointed the browser at /etc, and double
> > > clicked on a .conf file.   Kwrite opened displaying the .conf file so
> > > Kwrite is the designated default helper app in the browser.  I expect
> > > KDE apps are the default apps throughout that desktop.
> >
> > I'm running FC3. My default desktop is KDE--not by choosing each session
> > when I login, but by changing the default. Nevertheless, the default
> > association for Text/Plain, for example, is Gedit. The default association
> > for jpeg is gnome-eog. Is there any way, aside from going through each and
> > every association and manually fixing it, to tell FC3 I was serious when I
> > said I wanted KDE?
> Unfortunately the file associations are not automatically switched to the KDE
> apps just because you chose it as your desktop. (I know, I am in the same
> position).
> The following may be telling you what you already know, but here goes nothing:
> The only way that I know of to change this is
> Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Associations.
> Although you can change extensions very quickly in here. I find that I have to
> do this to stop using the unpleasant experience that is Rhythmbox (anyone
> know, offhand, why Juk, among other things, is ripped out of KDE in a default
> FC install?).
> 
> You can also do this on a per-filetype basis by right-clicking on the
> filetypes and clicking on the little 'Spanner' icon you'll see on the
> right-hand side.
> I have yet to find the exact file that this info is stored in. I was expecting
> something in ~/.kde/share/mimelnk but there's nowt there at the moment...
> 
> An alternative is to install the kde packages from http://kde-redhat.sf.net
> which should have KDE defaults set up, as well as newer, more up to date
> versions, without any KDE apps selectively removed. (Unfortunately they don't
> do x86_64 packages, so this time out I'm screwed without a massive rebuilding
> project. Still, I might be tempted. KDE from scratch used to take about 14
> hours on my old box)
> 
> Stuart
> 
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> anyone know, offhand, why Juk, among other things, is ripped out of KDE
> in a default FC install?

And I have been unable to install it! I installed kde-multimedia, but
no juk! And I can find no standalone app for juk 2. How is juk to be
installed on FC3?

Dotan
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