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[Eugene Konev]

On Monday 26 January 2004 09:26, John Sowden wrote:
> First of all, sorry about the 'no subject' error.
> Secondly, thanks for all of the input.  Looks like I opened a proverbial
> 'can of worms'.  What I currently do is go to the kde temp directory and
> change the name of the file, and move it to where I want it.
>
You'd better go to File menu, when you are presented a list of files, and 
choose Save as.
> On Sunday 25 January 2004 07:40 am, Shawn Willden wrote:
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> > On Sunday 25 January 2004 04:00 am, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > ark, KDE's archive handler, is associated with the filetype and opens
> > > it. Edit the file association for ZIP file and remove ark (control
> > > center->KDE components->file associations)
> >
> > Unfortunately, this will mean that ark will also not open zip files when
> > browsing them locally, which is probably not the desired behavior
> >
> > > or use hold the shift key
> > > when clicking the link or right click the link an choose "Save link as"
> >
> > And that doesn't always work either, since sometimes the link you click
> > is actually a link to an HTML page that redirects to the actual file.
> >
> > IMO, this is a Konqueror design flaw.  It sounds reasonable to say that
> > Konqueror should just act based on the mime type, regardless of the
> > location of the file, but this is not, in fact, what users generally want
> > with certain file types, compressed archives being the prime example.
> > When I click on a tarball on my local file system, I want ark to open it,
> > but when I click on a hyperlink to the same tarball on a web page, I just
> > want to be prompted to download it.
> >
> > In practice, I can usually work around this problem, but it took me a
> > while to figure out the workarounds and everyone I know that starts using
> > Konqueror considers this behavior to be annoying and broken.
> >
> > I'm not sure what a good solution is.  It's easy enough to say "allow the
> > user to specify that this MIME type should be downloaded and saved by
> > default when it's activated remotely", but I can see that it might be
> > hard to define "remote" across the whole set of kioslaves that do now and
> > will exist.  It's a topic worthy of exploration, though.
> >
> > Just my two cents,
> >
> > 	Shawn.
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