Annoying Popups in konqueror with Office File Preview enabled

[David Faure]

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On Sunday 10 November 2002 14:56, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> 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.

Of course. This isn't on purpose, it's a bug. The koffice-thumbnail module
uses code from libkofficecore which wasn't mean to be used in a non-interactive
mode. I'll fix this - but note that this is unrelated to KDE-3.1 and to kde-core-devel :)

- -- 
David FAURE, david at mandrakesoft.com, faure at kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
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