Hardy > Gnome > Nautilus > No launch by click for Kdvi, Kview

[pisikaA]

I have installed Hardy on 3 different computers and on all of them I experienced this:
Under Gnome, and from a Nautilus window (that's important!), it's impossible to start Kdvi program by just clicking on a .dvi file's icon (of course, I've previously made the necessary settings (in the file's Properties > Open with) in order to open the file with Kdvi by default).

Related symptoms:

1) If I do the same from a Konqueror window, or if I start Kdvi from a terminal, or from the Applications menu, then it works
2) the same bug occurs to the application Kview
3) it doesn't happen with Kpdf (so this one works fine)
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So, apparently it's a bug of Nautilus, not of Kdvi (or Kview).

[Kelvin Gardiner (kelvingardiner)]

I can confirm this. Changing status to confirmed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's a kdvi bug and there already similar bug, the kde .desktop have incorrect path keys which seem to not be an issue in konqueror but doesn't respect the standard and doesn't work correctly in nautilus

[pisikaA (andrei-iftimovici-gmail)]

So? Can we change 'by hand' something, somewhere ? If so, where and what ? I mean: is there any suggestion of what can one do in order to change the paths ? Thanks!
PS: it seems to be a small bug, but it is not so: all the math / physics / chemistry community types in TeX, and Kdvi seems to be the most friendly dvi viewer...

[pisikaA (andrei-iftimovici-gmail)]

I have a solution (which has been given to me by the user choubi57 on http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=213631 ):
Go to any .dvi file, click the right button of the mouse, pick "Properties" in the opening menu, choose "Open with" tab of the "Properties" window (until now, just standard steps) and then click on the button "Add" and don't pick any application from the list but click on "use a custom command" and type

kdvi

in the line command. Then click "Add" and be shure that in the "Open with" menu a new line called "kdvi" has been added, and select it. Then save and go out from the "Properties" menu. That's all.

OK, I agree, it's silly, but at least it works.
On the other hand, I think that the subject (bug) has to remain open, until a REAL solution is given.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Kdvi and Kview were removed from KDE 4, therefore I am closing this report as invalid.