mimetype problems...

[Rigo Wenning]

On Thursday 20 January 2011 20:39:59 David Faure wrote:
> > Why is there a need to do a preferred service [for text/html] 
> 
> to get a webbrowser, not an image viewer.
> 
We assume an image URI

KDE is based on mimetypes and URIs

Why on earth do you want to force this architecture by forcing to open the 
image with a webbrowser? If you embed the image in HTML, it should open with a 
webbrowser. But opening the pure image with a Webbrowser just abuses the image 
viewing capabilities of the Webbrowser to play image-viewer. 

So the architectural clean thing to do IMHO (not a programmer) would be new 
KRun(url) IMHO thus triggering the imageviewer. It is also consistent. Klick 
on a PDF link and normally, it should open with okular.

And one of the problems of Konversation is the missing thing in the right-
click menu: "Open with" that makes KDE so strong and that allows to select 
between the multiple applications available for a given mimetype. This would 
allow to also open with the browser, but not by default

Best, 

Rigo