[WebKit-devel] KDE MIME Types

[Dawit A.]

On Monday 04 January 2010 12:05:25 Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Heyho!
> 
> This is a triple-question, really:
> 
>  * is it possible to tell KDE to globally prefer webkit over khtml for all
> supported MIME types?  text/html is only one of the many MIME types where
> khtml and webkitpart are both listed for support.  Going through all MIME-
> Types is somewhat tedious.

Not that I know of, but I could be wrong here...

>  * is it possible that a recent upgrade (of either the webkit kpart or some
> KDE stuff) has reset the file associations?  I guess that would depend on
> what the packaging does in its postinst script, right?  OTOH I'd expect
>  this to only affect system wide defaults and not user choice, so I was
>  still surprised.

Cannot help you there because I have never encountered this issue and I 
regularly re-install kwebkit part...

>  * I sometimes see webpages rendered with khtml even though I have webkit
>  as the preferred viewer for all MIME Types I could find.  One example is
>  when calling konqueror somefile.html from the cmdline.  (Right now: the
>  pylons 0.9.7 HTML documentation locally built; it has a http-equiv
>  Content-Type: "text/html; charset=utf8" and claims to be XHTML 1 (in its
>  <!DOCTYPE>; I don't know what of this is evaluated.  (This is with KDE
>  4.3.2 from Debian squeeze; sorry for not trying something more recent.)

I myself have run into the problem that causes this issue. Check if you have 
the following configuration file:

$KDEHOME/share/apps/konqueror/profiles/webbrowsing

and if it is there, remove it.  To understand why read, you can read the 
discussion at the following thread

http://lists.kde.org/?t=125675211700001&r=1&w=2