Restricting mime types handled by kpartsplugin for firefox

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jun 5 19:19:13 UTC 2015


Roderick Johnstone wrote:

> On 02/06/15 18:53, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone know how to easily restrict the mime types that the firefox
>> plugin part of kpartsplugin handles? I need to configure this system
>> wide for all users.
>>
>> I'd just want to use it for embedding pdf documents in firefox using
>> okular, but it seems to want to handle loads of other mime types too.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Roderick Johnstone
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> Well, I have this working, except...
> 
> I found in the discussion at
> https://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=125066&forumpage=2 that
> you can have a file ~/.kde/share/config/kpartsplugin-mimetypes.rc where
> you can blacklist mime types. So, I listed all the  mime types that
> firefox was using kpartsplugin to handle and blacklisted them all except
> application/pdf.
> 
> That works, and hopefully I can find the equivalent place for that file
> so that these settings can be picked up systemwide.

If putting that file under ~/.kde/share/config/ works, then putting it under 
global /usr/share/config/ should work systemwide.

-- Rex



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