digikam with xfce and thunar filemanager

[Brano]

On 01/10/2010 12:58 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Sunday 10 January 2010, Brano wrote:
>  
>>> Which makes one ask:  "If digikam is using a default file manager, why do
>>> I  get two different file managers from different points within
>>> digikam??"
>>>
>>> import -->>  add folders      gives me konqy
>>>
>>> albums -->  open in file mgr      gives me dolphin
>>>
>>>  
>>>      
>> Because digikam is KDE native application and it is reading KDE default
>> settings not xfce settings.
>> Install KDE base, then open KDE settings pannel and change it there as
>> suggested.
>>
>>    
> But....   but.....    why would digikam have TWO  file mgr Defaults??     That
> is the question.
>
>  

No idea. On KDE 4.3 (openSUSE 11.2) it opens dolphin in both cases
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2010/1/10 dummy <[hidden email]>:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> the function i need is "Album", "Open in filemanager" (i'm not sure if
> this is translated correctly since i use a german localisation).

And it's the only menu entry which use file manager in digiKam...

Gilles Caulier
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[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:42:47AM +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 2010/1/10 dummy <[hidden email]>:
> > Hi Bruce,
> >
> > the function i need is "Album", "Open in filemanager" (i'm not sure if
> > this is translated correctly since i use a german localisation).
>
> And it's the only menu entry which use file manager in digiKam...
>
Well the other file selection dialogues use a very similar looking
interface, presumably that's simply because digikam uses the KDE
libraries though.

I can't actually think of another *application* which has a menu
option like digikam's "Open in filemanager", at least not one that I
use in xfce (with lots of Gnome stuff running).

The general approach in Gnome and/or xfce seems to be that it's up to
the window or session manager to decide what the default File Manager
utility is and that any application that wants to fire up a File
Manager will do it via the window/session hooks.

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[gerlos]

On giovedì 07 gennaio 2010 23:04:28, dummy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i am using digikam under xfce.
>
> The default filemanager within digikam seems to be dolphin. I would
> like to use thunar instead.
>
> Is this possible? I didn't find any configuration within digikam...

You need to install systemsettings, the KDE4 control panel. I'm not sure about the name of the package in Ubuntu, but if you do a search for the file name you should find it (maybe systemsettings-kde4?).

After you have installed systemsettings, you can start it from a terminal. The settings you want to change are in something like "favorite applications" (my system is in Italian, try to search for something similar).
In the left pane look for "File manager", click on it and in the right pane you should see a list of file managers available on your system, choose the one you want to use or click on "other" and point it to the path of your favourite file manager.

Finally, click "Apply", restart digikam if it's running and test if it worked. I'm not sure, but maybe you could need to do a new login to make it work...

If it worked, you can uninstall systemsettings and be happy.

bye bye
gerlos


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[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 11 January 2010, gerlos wrote:
> You need to install systemsettings, the KDE4 control panel. I'm not sure
>  about the name of the package in Ubuntu, but if you do a search for the
>  file name you should find it (maybe systemsettings-kde4?).
>

Thanks for this!

It does the trick.   I install all of KDE4 before I install XFCE so I already
had it on my system.   Works just fine.
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[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 11 January 2010, gerlos wrote:
> You need to install systemsettings, the KDE4 control panel. I'm not sure
>  about the name of the package in Ubuntu, but if you do a search for the
>  file name you should find it (maybe systemsettings-kde4?).
>

systemsettings appears to be an installable pkg all by itself.
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[Sveinn í Felli]

Hi,

On 01/11/2010 03:15 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 11 January 2010, gerlos wrote:
>> You need to install systemsettings, the KDE4 control panel. I'm not sure
>>  about the name of the package in Ubuntu, but if you do a search for the
>>  file name you should find it (maybe systemsettings-kde4?).
>>
>
> systemsettings appears to be an installable pkg all by itself.

There are many other scenarios where KDE control panel comes
in handy; like when KDE-apps refuse to obey system
localization and display english instead of your chosen
language, just to name one.

Best regards,

Sveinn í Felli

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[S. Burmeister]

Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2010 20:22:26 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> Look in KDE control panel. There is a settings to adjust default file
> manager (if i remember)...
>
> Anyway, digiKam do not hard code file manager, but ask to KDE control
> panel which one to use.

The thingy is called systemsettings now in KDE4 that might help to find it.

Sven
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[dummy-8]

Hi Gerlos,

yes, your advice is correct! Now it works like i expect it to work.
Thank you very much for your help, and greetings from my dad ;-)

Thanks too, to the other guys ...


With kind regards,

Alex

gerlos schrieb:

> On giovedì 07 gennaio 2010 23:04:28, dummy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i am using digikam under xfce.
>>
>> The default filemanager within digikam seems to be dolphin. I would
>> like to use thunar instead.
>>
>> Is this possible? I didn't find any configuration within digikam...
>
> You need to install systemsettings, the KDE4 control panel. I'm not sure about the name of the package in Ubuntu, but if you do a search for the file name you should find it (maybe systemsettings-kde4?).
>
> After you have installed systemsettings, you can start it from a terminal. The settings you want to change are in something like "favorite applications" (my system is in Italian, try to search for something similar).
> In the left pane look for "File manager", click on it and in the right pane you should see a list of file managers available on your system, choose the one you want to use or click on "other" and point it to the path of your favourite file manager.
>
> Finally, click "Apply", restart digikam if it's running and test if it worked. I'm not sure, but maybe you could need to do a new login to make it work...
>
> If it worked, you can uninstall systemsettings and be happy.
>
> bye bye
> gerlos
>
>

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