First of all, sorry about the 'no subject' error.
Secondly, thanks for all of the input. Looks like I opened a proverbial 'can
of worms'. What I currently do is go to the kde temp directory and change
the name of the file, and move it to where I want it.
John
On Sunday 25 January 2004 07:40 am, Shawn Willden wrote:
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> On Sunday 25 January 2004 04:00 am, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > ark, KDE's archive handler, is associated with the filetype and opens
> > it. Edit the file association for ZIP file and remove ark (control
> > center->KDE components->file associations)
>
> Unfortunately, this will mean that ark will also not open zip files when
> browsing them locally, which is probably not the desired behavior
>
> > or use hold the shift key
> > when clicking the link or right click the link an choose "Save link as"
>
> And that doesn't always work either, since sometimes the link you click is
> actually a link to an HTML page that redirects to the actual file.
>
> IMO, this is a Konqueror design flaw. It sounds reasonable to say that
> Konqueror should just act based on the mime type, regardless of the
> location of the file, but this is not, in fact, what users generally want
> with certain file types, compressed archives being the prime example.
> When I click on a tarball on my local file system, I want ark to open it,
> but when I click on a hyperlink to the same tarball on a web page, I just
> want to be prompted to download it.
>
> In practice, I can usually work around this problem, but it took me a while
> to figure out the workarounds and everyone I know that starts using
> Konqueror considers this behavior to be annoying and broken.
>
> I'm not sure what a good solution is. It's easy enough to say "allow the
> user to specify that this MIME type should be downloaded and saved by
> default when it's activated remotely", but I can see that it might be hard
> to define "remote" across the whole set of kioslaves that do now and will
> exist. It's a topic worthy of exploration, though.
>
> Just my two cents,
>
> Shawn.
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