Dolphin send file to Editor

[lacigas]

Hi
is it possible to create a keyboard shortcut so that the file(s) that is (are) selected in dolphin get sent to an editor (Kate)?

thanks for your help
lacigas

[Ole Juul]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

I haven't tried Dolphin, but it seems to me that you can right click on the file and chose open with -> kate. If you want some other editor, put it in the menu there. I just tried it with Konqueror and it works there. I normally use the command line for that kind of stuff just to save time and avoid any learning curve. You can type "kate" on the command line too.

[lacigas]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

Thanks for your answer but I don't want to use the mouse, I want a keyboard shortcut. I use this very often, so a right click and navigation through a menu is to slow.
What I want is to mark a file and hit F4 and the file should be in Kate ;-)

Laci

[dibl]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

I have not made the kate shortcut that your are looking for, but I would think it possible. Two things that I would start with:

1. Settings > Configure Dolphin > Services > Install Downloaded and look at the choices there -- there may be something suitable already made -- look at the "service menu" items.

2. Settings > Configure Shortcuts and see what it takes to define a keyboard shortcut that will launch kate (look at the one that launches Konsole -- use it for an example).

Hope this helps.

[lacigas]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

I tried that before but installing new services didn't work.
So I started dolphin from a konsole and I get the following error (first I had an error about ruby not found - I installed that):
knewstuff konnte nicht gefunden werden

which means that knewstuff could not be found.

Any idea what to do
Laci

[dibl]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

Which KDE version do you have installed? I should have mentioned that I have KDE 4.5 RC, which may have additional features not in KDE 4.4.

[lacigas]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

I'm using kubuntu 10.04 and Kde is version 4.4.2.

[lacigas]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

In the meantime I installed KDE 4.4.5. When I try to install a service in dolphin, I get
Object::connect No such slot KNS3::Installation::slotProgress(KJob*, unsigned long)
dolphin(1761)/knewstuff (api): Command failed.

Any clues?

Laci

[dibl]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

On my KDE 4.5 system, I installed Kubicle's "Root Action" menu item, just to test it, and there was no error.

If you google your error, there are a couple of hits, but I can't decipher them -- one looks like it might be a patch.

[lacigas]

Re: Dolphin send file to Editor

I tried the same on a different machine, also running kubuntu 10.04. Same problem.
Then I upgraded to KDE 4.5, tried again, still won't work.

The error I get now is: dolphin(6158)/knewstuff (api): Command failed

Any clues?

L.