[Gambas-user] KDE & Gambas executable

[Jose J. Rodriguez]

On 5/1/06, ron <ronstk at ...239...> wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 17:32, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
> > I would like to ask why I have problems running Gambas executables on my
> > Suse 9.3 & KDE 3.5.2
> >
> > When I write a program with Gambas 2 and I create the executable file
> > (Project/Create executable), after that if I click on the generated file
> > from a Konqueror window the program doesn't start (of course, I
> > specified to open it with gb2x),  But if I open a console and I try to
> > type the name of the program,  it starts with no problems....
> > Is there any option to specify from Konqueror to get the Gambas
> > executable running?
> >
>
> I did add it to suse9.2 with KDE 3.5.2
>
> Got to Personal Settings
> Select KDE Components->File Associations
>
> Press Add...
> Select Group:Applications
> Type name:x-gambas2
>
> At General tab Click Add...
> Enter :*.gambas
>
> Enter in the Description box :Gambas2 executable
>
> At Application Preference Order
> click Add..
> enter as application gbr2
> (do nor browse the tree)
> press OK
>
> Back select under Application Preference Order
> your entered app.
> click Edit
>
> At General tab enter something usefull
>
> At Application tab
> Name:gbr2 (if not there)
> Command:gbr2 (if not there)
>
> By supported filetypes there should be
>   Application/x-gambas2
>   Gambas Executable
>
> ==================================
>
> You can put gbr2.dexktop in
> /home/ron/.kde/share/applnk/.hidden
>
> You can put x-gambas2.desktop in
> /home/ron/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/x-gambas2.desktop
>
> run from commandline: kbuildsycoca
> Now it should be working
>
> ==================================
> replace '/home/ron/.kde/' eventualy to '/opt/kde3/' for system wide.
> but check the contenyt of the files for correct paths.
>
> Hope this will help you
> If success please give response so the method is tested
> and can be put in the wiki help.
>
> Ron
>
>

Works as user by copying the 2 files and running kbuildsycoca, but
couldn't get it to work system-wide (tried that first).

Regards,
Joe1962