Opening files with a double click

[Willy K. Hamra]

Donn wrote:
> Kubuntu Jaunty - 64bit
> KDE 4.2.x
> Nvidia card using nvidia-glx-180
> Theme: Oxygen default install
> 
> Hi, I am sure I am being dumb here, but...
> In Konqphin ... How do you open *in an external app* a jpg file by double-
> clicking it? I have set okular to be my preferred jpg application. Every time 
> I double-click (DC) on a jpg it opens *inside* Konqphin (kpart).
> 
> The same goes for SVG files (and others). I want an SVG ,when I DC, to open in 
> Inkscape -- not some horrible svg kpart.
> 
> In KDE 3.5 one could always middle-click a file to get an external application 
> to open it. In KDE4, no longer...
> 
> Halp! :D
> 
> \d
in konqueror, settings, configure konqueror, file associations. choose
the kind of file you want, maybe you might want to select the whole
"image" group, and choose in the embedding tab whether to embed file in
knqueror, or open in seperate viewer.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net

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