[Bug 287551] man:tar makes a tar archive instead.

[Dawit Alemayehu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287551





--- Comment #5 from Dawit Alemayehu <adawit kde org>  2012-01-05 20:00:07 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Yes.
> 
> Actually it depends on the default MIME association. Set association of FF with
> HTML files.
> 
> I've similar issue with man:cat.
> 
> I think kio should append .html to the file name, since FF being more Windows
> prone checks the extension. Infact this's the same for Chromium.
> 
> This problem persists with kde 4.7

Actually the bug here is not in kio_man, but rather in KRun that is responsible
for making sure the proper application is launched to handle the given
protocol. Neither Chromium nor Firefox support the KDE specific man: or info:
protocols and hence should never be used to view those pages even if they are
selected to handle the text/html by default. A solution would have to be found
for that or this might be marked as a WONTFIX because the issue is not ours to
fix.

My question to you however is why change the mime-type association when you can
simply change the default web browser ? If you do that you won't run into this
problem at all since man or info pages will not be opened with browsers that do
not have support for those protocols.

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