Annoying Popups in konqueror with Office File Preview enabled

[Matthias Welwarsky]

Hi,

Konqueror currently shows a very ugly habit: If you have preview enabled for
 office documents (i.e. OpenOffice, M$-Office), but the preview cannot be
 generated for some reason (missing import filter/thumbnail generator), a
 message box pops up stating that the document could not be opened, and
 another one stating the unability to handle the file type. You have to click
 away two windows to proceed with your work. This does not particularely
 improve usability.

Proposed solution: Never pop up message boxes if preview generation fails.

I'd even make a rule out of this: Never popup message boxes on errors that
 result from any background activity that is not in relation do a direct user
 interaction in the same context.

regards,
	matze

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Matthias Welwarsky
Fachschaft Informatik FH Darmstadt
Email: matze at stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de

"all software sucks equally, but some software is more equal"
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