[kdepim-users] Not working, Link from Kmail -> Konqoerror

[Bruce MacArthur]

On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:23, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday, 2009-06-04, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to configure KMail / Konquerror to work together?
> >
> > My Problem, when I start a Link from a EMail I have in the
> > Konquerror the /var/tmp/kdecache-xxxx/ path and not the correct
> > URL?
> >
> > openSuSE 11.1 KDE 4.2.4
>
> KMail uses a KDE service to launch applications for URLs so this has
> to be fixed at KDE settings level.
>
> The symptoms indicate that the file association of the file type of
> the link (text/html for normal web pages), or the global web browser
> setting, use a command which does not include %u as one of its
> parameters.
>
> For example on my system I have
> System Settings -> Advanced Tab -> File associations
> for text/html Konqueror on top of the list
> If I select this entry and click "Edit" I see that the command is
> kfmclient openURL %u text/html
>
> where %u will be replaced with the URL
>
> This command is usually directly taken from a .desktop file installed
> by the application packages so it should be correct.
> Manual modifications to file associations could have changed that.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

I have long had the very same problem under openSUSE 10.2.  I am 
migrating to Kubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and do not yet know quite what to 
expect in this regard.  A previous off-list exchange on the topic reads 
as follows.  I would note that, although I think that I have found the 
area cited by Kevin, everything actually reads quite differently -- and 
the /var... that is used by Konqueror does NOT appear!  I do NOT yet 
understand how to make things function "normally"!!!  Any further 
specific remarks would be GREATLY appreciated!


On Wednesday 01 April 2009 08:41:00 Bruce MacArthur wrote:
>
> I was just reminded of a "problem" that I have long been having, and
> wonder if you have any idea of how to even categorize it!
>
> A contact sends me an E-mail message which includes a hyper-link to a
> web-site.  I click on the hyper-link, expecting to go to the web-site
> indicated.  But that does NOT happen!
>
> Instead, Konquorer opens and displays "the same thing" that is on that
> web-site, but I am "dead in the water".  The problem is indicated in
> the address-bar of Konquorer.  For example, it says --
> /var/tmp/kdecache-bruce/krun/19160.0.noah.htm
>
> If this page has any hyper-links, they have a similar style -- 
beginning in /var/tmp/kdecache-bruce/krun/.  Since this does not exist, 
I get a 404 -- File Not Found error.
>
> All of this is quite in spite of the fact that (in this particular 
case)> the actual hyper-link, as found in the E-Mail message, reads --
> http://home.att.net/~hideaway_today/t133/noah.htm
>
> This particular example does NOT have hyper-links on the page, so it
> does not display that aspect of the problem.  But the peculiar
> conversion from a legitimate link to a spurious one is shown 
typically.
>
> I have not yet seen anything which would appear to explain this 
strange behavior -- or allow me to correct the settings or situation in 
any way.  Do you have any idea of how I can find out what is wrong and 
how to fix it?
>
Yes.  The reason is that the link being in the mail message is causing 
KDE to cache it, and you are working from the cached version.  You have 
two options.  You can either use right-click to copy the link onto the 
clipboard, then open Konqueror (or Firefox) and paste it into the 
browser, or you can tell KDE's control center that you want to use 
Firefox as your default browser.  If I remember correctly it will not 
feed the cached address to Firefox.

Konqueror's great strength and weakness are one and the same - it sticks 
to the rules, which means that it doesn't play well with the many web 
sites that don't.  Firefox includes a lot of work-arounds to deal with 
those pages.

I can't remember the exact layout of kcontrol in OpenSUSE, but you want 
the screen 'Default Application'.  Try setting the default web browser 
to Firefox.  (Mine is left with konqueror, but I often use the copy and 
paste on the address if it's in a mail message.)

Did I tell you that highlighting text copies it onto the clipboard?  If 
you put your cursor where you want it to appear, you can then just 
middle-click and it will be pasted in.


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