KIO problem

Carsten Pfeiffer carpdjih at mailbox.tu-berlin.de
Tue Jan 14 00:55:42 GMT 2003


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On Monday 13 January 2003 23:55, David Faure wrote:

> With CVS HEAD? Typing konqueror is supposed to look for a

Hmmhmmmhmm. With HEAD it actually works just fine... the same 
konqueror-2.desktop file is generated, but it just works.

> How is KOpenWith then supposed to know that this new app it never heard
> about, can handle URLs? :)

The best would be a way to let Konq tell KOpenWith that this is a directory.

> Possible ways to fix this:
> * Moving konqueror.desktop to applnk/, with Type=Application, and
> NoDisplay=true. 
> * Adding a hardcoded check for 'konqueror' in kopenwith.cpp
> - yes it's ugly, but are there really other apps which the user is never
> supposed to start directly, only through another app (like kfmclient) ?
> * Adding something like X-KDE-Alias=konqueror to kfmclient.desktop and
> adding support for aliases in kopenwith.cpp... (so that it finds
> kfmclient.desktop when people type konqueror).

I'm unsure, given that it actually works in HEAD. Was anything changed in that 
regard? Can anyone reproduce the problem at all (with either HEAD or 3.1)?

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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