konqueror won't open links in external applications

[David Faure]

On Monday 15 March 2004 22:57, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has anybody noticed this beside me? I have pdfs associated with acroread as
> external application and set the "open in external viewer". This works for
> file parts, but for khtml, whenever I click a link to a pdf/ps, I get a
> dialog on which I click "open", and the document is loaded in a kghostview
> kpart instead in the acroread/kghostview standalone app, replacing the
> webpage (mmb opens a new konqueror window with the kghostview part embedded).

This is news to me.
Hmm. I think I see where it could come from.
Does this help?

Index: konq_mainwindow.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdebase/konqueror/konq_mainwindow.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.1293
diff -u -p -r1.1293 konq_mainwindow.cc
--- konq_mainwindow.cc  13 Mar 2004 13:15:51 -0000      1.1293
+++ konq_mainwindow.cc  16 Mar 2004 16:55:51 -0000
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ bool KonqMainWindow::openView( QString s
               KParts::BrowserRun::AskSaveResult res = KParts::BrowserRun::askEmbedOrSave(
                   url, serviceType, suggestedFilename );
               if ( res == KParts::BrowserRun::Open )
-                  forceAutoEmbed = true;
+                  ; //forceAutoEmbed = true;
               else if ( res == KParts::BrowserRun::Cancel )
                   return true; // handled, don't do anything else
               else { // Save

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