Konqueror and Saving FIles

[Harmen Schaap]

On Thursday 29 May 2003 16:55, Tom wrote:

> I've used Netscape/Mozilla on the Mac for quite a while, since the Mac
> was by primary browsing machine. I've since considered having my Linux
> box play a more prominent role, and as such, I've begun using Konqueror.
> Generally, the developers have done some very good work here, but I've
> run into a problem that is making it somewhat of a pain. Both bzip2
> archives and tarballs are very common on the Linux platform, when I
> click on a download link, I'd like *more than anything else* to be able
> to, um, download the file. I don't want to extract it, I don't want to
> browse the contents of the archive. All I want to do is download the
> file *as is*- seems reasonable - click on a download link, and it
> downloads the file. Problem is, I can't figure out how to make this
> happen - the File Associations setting for the 'application' group says
> to 'Show file in separate viewer' (what ever that means), but oddly
> missing is a 'Save file to disk' option. Is there a way I can restore
> some sanity to this process by having it do what I expect it to do
> (download the file), rather than what it's doing now?

Try "shift-click"


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Harmen Schaap
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