KDE file association. Which parameters can be passed to the command?

[Felpe]

Hallo:

I use kubuntu 8.04.

I can associate an extension to a program, so that program will open that file when I click it.
But the commad association accept many parameters:

Ex: For a .html extension I see:
firefox %u
kate --use %U

For .aac I see:
noatun %i %m -caption "%c" %U
gmplayer %F

What this variables mean?: %u, %i, %m %c, %U, %F

How can I know all the variables available?


Thanks.

Felipe

[kubicle]

Re: KDE file association. Which parameters can be passed to the command?

See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/des...exec-variables
for descriptions.

[Rog131]

Re: KDE file association. Which parameters can be passed to the command?

and / or (KDE is using the Desktop Entry Specification - freedesktop.org)

> Chapter 26. Customizing KDE

%f

A single file name; used when dropping file on icon, or with file associations.
%F

A list of files; use for applications that can open several local files at once.
%u

A single URL: if the app can handle e.g. FTP or HTTP URLs itself, otherwise KDE.

...

and the application will tell even more, if you ask:

kate --help

Usage: kate [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [KDE-tempfile-options] [options] [URL]

Kate - Advanced Text Editor

Generic options:
--help Show help about options
--help-qt Show Qt specific options
--help-kde Show KDE specific options
--help-kde-tempfile Show KDE-tempfile specific options
--help-all Show all options
--author Show author information
-v, --version Show version information
--license Show license information
-- End of options

Options:
-s, --start <name> Start Kate with a given session
-u, --use Use a already running kate instance (if possible)
-p, --pid <pid> Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid
-e, --encoding <name> Set encoding for the file to open
-l, --line <line> Navigate to this line
-c, --column <column> Navigate to this column
-i, --stdin Read the contents of stdin

Arguments:
URL Document to open

[Felpe]

Re: KDE file association. Which parameters can be passed to the command?

Thank you very much.

That's what I was looking for.