On Monday 26 January 2004 09:26, John Sowden wrote: > 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. > You'd better go to File menu, when you are presented a list of files, and choose Save as. > On Sunday 25 January 2004 07:40 am, Shawn Willden wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFAE+Nrp1Ep1JptinARAqyAAKCDHq6JSxvlE3qBhqrKQ+D/LPcFNwCeLvKx > > /iIRq90dssuEuBzgGs6+2Q0= > > =9The > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ___________________________________________________ > > . > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. -- Eugene Konev aka ejka ejka@xxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ#235127591 Krasnoyarsk State Teachers-Training University
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