Some questions on Labview under KDE4 and GNOME

[anshuljain]

I have some questions regarding KDE4 an GNOME with Labview for Linux. I'm trying to help a colleague get somethings working with regards to these desktop environments.

1. KDE4: When I try to open a VI directly through Dolphin (the default file manager under KDE4)..and the file (lets say ABCD.VI) is located in say /home/user/Test VI/ABCD.vi. When I double click, Labview starts and says that "/home/user/Test" is not a valid VI and it just errors out and refuses to open. It refuses to honor any whitespaces under KDE4 is what I've noticed. I haven't noticed this under KDE3. 

2. GNOME: There are no icons for .vi files after installation, even though the desktop support for GNOME is installed during the install process.  

 Would appreciate some help!

[Jeremy_B]

Hi anshuljain,

What distribution are you using? 

[anshuljain]

Hi Jeremy,

I'm using Opensuse 11.0 for KDE4 or GNOME. I see the same behavior with Mandriva or Kubuntu.

Regards

-Anshul

[Jeremy_B]

Hi Anshul,

What version of Mandriva do you see this in?  We only official test for and support a couple distributions (SUSE is only supported up to 10.3): http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/35D2B5E483A001A18625716B005BE464?OpenDocument 

[anshuljain]

Jeremy, Yes, NI supports only upto Mandriva 2008 and not Opensuse. However, I see this problem with the KDE4 version of Mandriva too. The KDE4 version can be installed through ftp.kde.org and installs alongside the KDE3 installation. It is kernel-independent so they share the same DAQ and VISA drivers. While Konqueror on KDE3 can open the .vi files directly by double clicking it, Dolphin (which happens to be KDE4's default file manager) cannot open it by double clicking the .vi file. This happens only for .vi files, any other file..i.e. .doc, .odg files open just fine. -Anshul