Konqueror and Saving FIles

[Tom]

Harmen Schaap wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2003 18:43, Tom wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Okay, I just had a quick look. Do this:
> in Konqueror: 
> - Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> File Associations 
> - Select Applications -> x-tgz 
> - Click Embedding Tab
> - Remove the "Archiver" from the Services Preference Order
> 
> Do this for the other extensions too... 
> 
> That should do the trick :-)))

Great tip! A thousand "thank you vedy muches" : )

Regards,

Tom

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