Konqueror and Saving FIles

[Tom]

Harmen Schaap wrote:
> 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"
> 
> 

Thanks for your response...this unfortunately does not work when dealing 
with a site like freshmeat.net, which redirects the download to a mirror 
site. That aside, this really should be the *default* behavior, since 
it's what I'd consider common and expected.


Regards,

Tom

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