| Stephen Gran on 18 Jan 2006 18:59:04 -0000 |
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:29:29PM -0500, Kyle R. Burton said: > Henry, > > Thank you for your response. I was not aware of the specific name of > the binary for the default KDE text editor. > > I phrased my question poorly though. What I am looking for is a way > of hooking into the default registry of applications so that KDE (or > konqureor) will figure out which application to launch based on the > type of the file I am trying to open - just as it does when you click > on the file in konqureor. > > osx's 'open' can be given any kind of file, and if it knows how to > handle it, it will launch the appropriate application. 'Preview' for > .pdf and image files. TextEdit for .txt and .rtf files. Quicktime > for .mpg files and iTunes for .mp3 files. Windows has a similar > command: 'start'. If you feed these commands a file path that points > to a directory, they open the finder and windows explorer > respectively. > > I was (hoping) wondering if there were a similar way of hooking into > the KDE system from a terminal. You're looking for kfmclient. Run kfmclient --commands to get an idea how it works, but basically for the use case you describe it would be (I think) kfmclient exec foo.pdf HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Mathematicians practice absolute | | steve@lobefin.net | freedom. -- Henry Adams | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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