How to tell konqueror to cache files locally before executing external programs?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Ph. Marek wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> is there some way to tell konqueror to fetch files from certain protocols
> and store them locally before invoking some external utility?
>
> The contextmenu offers "Open with...", which cannot be used for most
> programs - only a few know how to open "http://"-URLs, and only
> KDE-specific understand "sftp://".
>
> Can I configure kde to cache such files locally before starting the
> external program? Either by protocol (say, "sftp://") or by program (like
> "only local filesystem possible")?

When KDE needs to "start" a file, it checks the file associations. If the file 
assocation's command, usually the "Exec" line of the application's ".desktop" 
file, contains %u or %U, KDE assumes that the application will handle the URL 
itself. If it does not or if it contains %f or %F, it will download the file 
to a temporary location before starting the application.

> Please keep me CCed, I'm already on too many lists :-)

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Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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