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Binary package hint: firefox
When clicking on a file link from Firefox (1.99+2.0rc2+dfsg-0ubuntu2) for which there is no automatic action (e.g. a pdf file), the "You have chosen to open" dialogue window comes up, stating the default application, and giving the user the option to open with that application, choose "Other...", or save to disk. However, the 'Other..." dialogue does not allow the user to select program files from /usr/bin, which effectively makes the "Other..." dialogue useless.
For example, if a PDF link is clicked on from Firefox the default action is to open PDF files with KGhostview. My preference for opening PDF files is KPDF, not KGhostview. However, if I select the drop-down in the "Open With" dialogue and select "Other....", I have no access to choose any other application - all I can access is files in /home, which means no access to any applications installed in the default system folders, i.e., /usr/bin/. This means the "Other..." dialogue has no real purpose.
Ideally, of course, this dialogue should not require a user to know they need to find /usr/bin/kpdf -- most desktop users would not (and should not need to) know where the binary file is actually stored.
The "Other..." option should let the user choose what program they want from the K Menu (K Menu, Graphics, KPDF), not the filesystem (/usr/bin/kpdf). This behaviour is not unique to Kubuntu, though; I assume it is tricky because Firefox is not a KDE program?
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Binary package hint: firefox
When clicking on a file link from Firefox (1.99+2.0rc2+dfsg-0ubuntu2) for which there is no automatic action (e.g. a pdf file), the "You have chosen to open" dialogue window comes up, stating the default application, and giving the user the option to open with that application, choose "Other...", or save to disk. However, the 'Other..." dialogue does not allow the user to select program files from anywhere outside of /home. There is another button (which I missed initially) at the top-left that allows the user to type in the path, though this was not immediately obvious. For example, if a PDF link is clicked on from Firefox the default action is to open PDF files with KGhostview. My preference for opening PDF files is KPDF. However, if I select the drop-down in the "Open With" dialogue and select "Other....", I have no access to choose any other application - all I can access is files in /home, which means no access to any applications installed in the default system folders, i.e., /usr/bin/. If I know the actual path, I can click on the 'Type a file name' icon and type in /usr/bin/kpdf, but I still have to know the actual binary name.
Ideally this dialogue should not require a user to know they need to find /usr/bin/kpdf -- most desktop users would not (and should not need to) know where the binary file is actually stored.
The "Other..." option should let the user choose what program they want from the K Menu (K Menu,This behaviour is not unique to Kubuntu, though; I assume it is tricky because Firefox is not a KDE program?
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