OT: Accessing Open With dialogue (Was: Plugin development)

[Dotan Cohen]

> If none can be found, open the "Open with" application dialog, where you can
> choose the app to work with by yourself.
>

Andi, how do you access that Open With dialogue? Is it KDE-specific? I
ask because of this unrelated bug, which this information may help
solve:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/232046

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Yes, it is the KDE OpenWith dialog box. It will present you the installed
applications, but you are also able to use an application found anywhere in
the filesystem.

Andi

On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:05:09 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > If none can be found, open the "Open with" application dialog, where you
> > can choose the app to work with by yourself.
>
> Andi, how do you access that Open With dialogue? Is it KDE-specific? I
> ask because of this unrelated bug, which this information may help
> solve:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/232046

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[Dotan Cohen]

> Yes, it is the KDE OpenWith dialog box. It will present you the installed
> applications, but you are also able to use an application found anywhere in
> the filesystem.
>

Andi, could you add info as to how an application could access the
Open With dialogue to this Firefox bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490124

I know that it is OT for this list, but it would help solve one of the
glaring usability issues with that otherwise terrific web browser.

Thanks!

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I don't know if it is possible to open this dialog just from the command line
(or via dbus).

I checked kdialog --help, but this doesn't contain the openwith feature.
If firefox wants to use this dialog, the only possibility that I see is to
link against kdebase and use the KOpenWithDialog class.

But I don't think this is a good idea :-)
I'm not that much into kdelibs, so maybe you should ask in the kde-devel
channel on IRC. There might be a possibility to use this dialog without
linking against KDE libraries.

Andi

On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:52:36 Dotan Cohen wrote:

> > Yes, it is the KDE OpenWith dialog box. It will present you the installed
> > applications, but you are also able to use an application found anywhere
> > in the filesystem.
>
> Andi, could you add info as to how an application could access the
> Open With dialogue to this Firefox bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490124
>
> I know that it is OT for this list, but it would help solve one of the
> glaring usability issues with that otherwise terrific web browser.
>
> Thanks!

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[Dotan Cohen]

> I don't know if it is possible to open this dialog just from the command line
> (or via dbus).
>
> I checked kdialog --help, but this doesn't contain the openwith feature.
> If firefox wants to use this dialog, the only possibility that I see is to
> link against kdebase and use the KOpenWithDialog class.
>
> But I don't think this is a good idea :-)
> I'm not that much into kdelibs, so maybe you should ask in the kde-devel
> channel on IRC. There might be a possibility to use this dialog without
> linking against KDE libraries.
>
> Andi
>

Thanks, Anki!

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